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Drifters, dreamers and beachcombers
Freshwater lagoon of the Aramia River at BalimoPHIL FITZPATRICKBrown Girl by the ShoreDirty old hulk caught in the tideSun beating down on her battered sideRemember the days when she ran freeOut...
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The 12 reasons I prefer Marape to O’Neill
Are we about to see a second face-off between James Marape and Peter O'Neill?TONY CHARLES WATTZ KEROWA| PNG News | EditedPORT MORESBY – Why are so many people supporting prime minister James...
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Through immigrant eyes – Part 5
BERNARD CORDEN| EditedBRISBANE - No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it and the sinister objective of every tyrant is to curtail free speech, crush rebellion and disenfranchise...
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The power of writing
A new book arrives. Man Bilong Buk unravelled the life and work of author Francis Nii (Michael Dom)PHILIP FITZPATRICKTUMBY BAY - The Man Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English...
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Scientists try to save bananas from climate change
Exotic red bananas found only in PNG (Sebastien Carpentier)JON DALY| Australian Broadcasting CorporationDARWIN - Scientists are racing to find and save the living ancestors of modern-day, cultivated...
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Chinese fisheries project in Daru raises alarm
Chinese-flagged fishing boat ( Artyom Ivanov, Tass)AARON SMITH| The Guardian | Judith Nielson Institute| ExtractLink to the full story hereSYDNEY - A $204 million (K527 million) Chinese-built fishery...
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Sojourn in Balimo: beautiful people, culture & nature
Balimo lagoonJAIVE| My Amazing Paradise | Edited extractON THE ROAD - Balimo is beautiful. The sun rises and sets on the most beautiful lagoon in Papua New Guinea.It’s created by the floodwaters of the...
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Bumps on the road in the push for equality
BEN JACKSONNOOSA – The local newspaper where we're staying, Noosa Today, last week ran a piece from someone pushing anachronistic, sexist, mansplaining propaganda which I could not let pass.In a...
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Reflections on the borderland dilemma
Boat harbour, Daru (The Guardian)JOHN GREENSHIELDSADELAIDE – I’m reading the fascinating, ‘Too Close to Ignore: Australia’s Borderland with PNG and Indonesia’, by Mark Moran and Jodie Curth-Bibb,...
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Ageing kiaps worry about their legacy
Many ex-kiaps maintain a close relationship with PNG. Here Bob Cleland looks out over the Asaro Valley from the Daulo Pass. Bob was instrumental in building this challenging stretch of the Highlands...
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Nobetau termination was unlawful: National Court
Joseph Nobetau - "The case always meant more than a job to me"JOSEPH NOBETAUBUKA - Today in the Papua New Guinea national court, Justice Nicholas Miviri ruled that my termination as chief secretary of...
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Panguna - we have not learnt enough
Hon Simon Pentanu is speaker of the Bougainville parliament and a former chief ombudsman of PNGSIMON PENTANU| Bougainville NewsBUKA - Panguna and its landowners had a mix of these feelings during the...
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Namah: A waste of money & court time
Opposition leader Belden Namah - lost a bid to overturn James Marape's prime ministershipBRYAN KRAMER MP| The Kramer ReportPORT MORESBY – Last Friday, a bench of five judges of Papua New Guinea’s...
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When the last old kiap dies….
Exploring the high hills in the early 1950s. The late Harry West OAM, war veteran and kiapCHIPS MACKELLARThey're all old now, their hair turned white as the years went rolling by,And with every year...
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Realising the promise of the swamps
Anthony Uechtritz and Augustine Mano, managing director of the Mineral Resources Development CorporationPETER KARL UECHTRITZCAIRNS - I've read the book, ‘Too Close to Ignore: Australia’s Borderland...
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The colonial mythology behind West Papua
YAMIN KOGOYACANBERRA – Yesterday, 1 December, was the day of West Papuan statehood, remembrance, and mourningEach year on this day, Papuans commemorate the conception of a new Papuan state. This was...
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In the warriors’ code, there is no surrender
Rumginae's twin arrivalNDRANOU KAMANAKURUGHAZ, WESTERN PROVINCE – Yesterday was my day off from Rumginae rural hospital but I had determined not to sleep in, which is my norm.I had administrative...
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The battered metal bowl
PHILIP FITZPATRICKFICTION -The man has a battered metal bowl in his hands. His left eye is opaque but he stares at me with his right eye. I look down at him and he extends the bowl towards me with both...
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A remarkable journalist calls it a day
Mungo MacCallum, 1979 (Sydney Morning Herald)KEITH JACKSONNOOSA - Under the headline ‘That’s all she wrote’, one of my favourite journalists, Mungo MacCallum, announced today his inability to keep...
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Why I took the ABG to court
JOSEPH NOBETAUPORT MORESBY - In his judgement on Monday, Justice Nicholas Miviri of the national court held that my termination as chief secretary of the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) failed...
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