My Story: Dreams and ambitions shattered at the prime
12 - FRANCIS NII | Supported by the South Pacific Strategic Solutions Writing Fellowship AN ISOLATED AND SHATTERED JOURNEY is probably the best way to describe my life. As a child, I was rarely allowed...
View ArticleRabaul tru - Matt Foley dies after a colourful life
EOIN BLACKWELL | AAP MATT FOLEY, ONE OF THE TWO REMAINING former Australian coastwatchers who served in Papua New Guinea during World War II has died. He was 91. Foley lived in Rabaul, in East New...
View ArticleExploring PNG’s interior & dangerously gritty Moresby
PEABODY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY & ETHNOLOGY Papua New Guinea portraits & diaries. From the series ‘Portraits’ by Stephen Dupont, part of his Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography. Peabody...
View ArticleBougainville, our Mekamui
ISHMAEL PALIPAL Known as the land of Mekamui where the black people bear in mind as holy land the land of their black ancestors who lived by the conducts of their culture the culture which is very...
View ArticleOne of PNG’s most profound pieces of literature
GANJIKI D WAYNE | Supported by the Bea Amaya Writing Fellowship HERE’S AN UNUSUAL IDEA. For some inspirational and nationalistic reading, try the 1974 Constitutional Planning Committee Report written...
View ArticleManus centre no place for kids says Oz refugee advisor
AAP ASYLUM SEEKER CHILDREN and their families should be taken off Manus Island if the Australian government can't ensure adequate safeguards, a member of the government's asylum review panel says....
View ArticleGreater Pacific focus in Australia if Labor loses poll
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL AN ACADEMIC SAYS he expects Australia’s aid program to focus more on the Pacific region, especially Papua New Guinea, if the Liberal-National coalition comes to power in...
View ArticleSocial change drives Mal Meninga’s role with PNG
FOGS QUEENSLAND [Former Origin Greats] A DESIRE TO SEE RUGBY LEAGUE used as an instrument for social change was behind Mal Meninga’s decision to become the high performance director of the Papua new...
View ArticleWill I alone enjoy the fruits of my labour today?
DAVID GONOL ‘WILL I ALONE enjoy the fruits of my labour today?’ I thought. As this thought was bubbling in my mind and I went to one of my brother’s house for a visit. He is a lawyer, and he...
View ArticlePNG ministers get restless on West Papua issue
SOLOMON STAR (Honiara) A PAPUA NEW GUINEA government minister, speaking as a private citizen, has said it is time PNG made a bold stand for the independence struggle of the mostly Melanesian indigenous...
View ArticleAnother Port Moresby community is bulldozed
MICHELLE NAYAHAMUI ROONEY | Development Policy Blog ON TUESDAY 12 MARCH, I made one of my regular visits to the Oro/ATS (Air Transport Squadron) settlement in Port Moresby where I have been undertaking...
View ArticleReal-life book drama has happier ending than story
PAUL THOMAS | New Zealand Herald IN HIS 1889 ESSAY, The Decay of Lying, Oscar Wilde, argued that "life imitates art far more than art imitates life". New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones' celebrated 2006...
View ArticleBen's PNG Diary - Day 1: A flight to remember
BEN JACKSON IN MAY LAST YEAR I collected Martyn ‘Mangiwantok’ Namorong from Sydney International Airport at the start of his two-week Take the Truth to Australia Tour of Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and...
View ArticleBougainville autonomy review seek people’s opinions
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL A REVIEW OF THE autonomy arrangements in Bougainville will garner views from across the autonomous province. The review team includes representatives from the Autonomous...
View ArticleThe genesis of conscripted teachers in the PIR, 1966-73
DAN WINKEL & TERRY EDWINSMITH HENRY KEPPLE DACHS was a twin born to Jose and Elizabeth Dachs at Stanthorpe, Queensland in the 1930s. After primary school he was sent to Brisbane Grammar School as a...
View ArticleInnocent still
LEONARD FONG ROKA ONE DAY IN 1997, I was returning home from Arawa High School when a bunch of wandering PNG Defence Force soldiers met me and my two friends. One of them, a Tolai, looked at me and a...
View ArticleUS remains identified from WWII PNG air crash
THE REMAINS OF A SOLDIER who died when his plane crashed in Papua New Guinea during World War II have been identified have been returned to his family for burial. US Army 1st Lt John Terpning, of Mount...
View ArticleEx-builder Dr Barry Kirby's labour of love in PNG
JO CHANDLER | The Australian IT WAS MIDNIGHT and Barry Kirby had been at the wheel for almost seven hours, nudging his 4WD 200km down a goat-track of bog, fog and yawning ravines in some of Papua New...
View ArticleOil Search issues ground-breaking transparency report
OIL SEARCH LIMITED | Extracts Strategy On Track, 2012 Transparency Report, Oil Search Limited, April 2013 OIL SEARCH BELIEVES that increased revenue transparency is an effective means of addressing...
View ArticleAn epigram on ‘subsistence agriculture’
MICHAEL DOM ‘A vast majority survive by subsistence agriculture…’ Sub? Who do we exist below? Existence…is that all? What does that definition sentence us to? Relegation We don’t ‘sub’ anyone, we don’t...
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