Driving lessons: the roads of PNG are no game
JOE WASIA | Supported by the Bob Cleland Writing Fellowship I HAVE BEEN PROMPTED to write this article by a tragic vehicle accident that caused the loss of many of my country men and women. The fatal...
View ArticleWhen Jesus strikes
LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship This short story is dedicated to all young people of Bougainville and the rest of Solomon Islands “Teo’ri. Ningka’mau, wake up or Ill...
View ArticleLandfall in Japan: My first trip to Asia
WERNER COHILL THE 77TH COUNCIL MEETING and 43rd General Assembly of the Asian Pacific Parliamentarians Union (APPU) was held from 25-27 March in Tokyo, Japan, Asia’s most developed and technologically...
View ArticleWantoks and business – seeking a good compromise
PHIL FITZPATRICK THE WANTOK SYSTEM emerges from the idea of a clan sharing its resources. However sharing is not a good business model. In western business, individuals seek to maximise profit with...
View ArticleBen’s PNG Diary – Day 5: Moresby is people, not places
ONE OF THE REASONS tourists visit the world’s great cities is because of their beauty and iconic monuments. The photo albums trundled out after such overseas trips are invariably filled with a face...
View ArticleNew Oz secretary Matt Thistlethwaite to visit PNG
AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION THE NEW AUSTRALIAN Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs and Multicultural Affairs, Matt Thistlethwaite, will visit Papua New Guinea from 14-18 April. It will be...
View ArticleBen’s PNG Diary – Day 6: Promoting the Crocodile Prize
BEN JACKSON LONG BEFORE DR STEVEN WINDUO became a PhD he wrote poetry and studied literature for his undergraduate degree at the University of Papua New Guinea. He was one of two students in the...
View ArticleSwamp Ghost Flying Fortress returns to Pearl Harbour
STAR-ADVERTISER (HONOLULU) YESTERDAY A FAMOUS World War II B-17 bomber arrived at the Pacific Aviation Museum in Pearl Harbour. It wasn’t winging in; in fact, it arrived by the truckload — in seven...
View ArticleWhy Papua New Guineans don't make it in business
TONY FLYNN THE WANTOK SYSTEM was once very popular in the West. It's not just a Papua New Guinea phenomenon. Benjamin Franklin was quite keen on nepotism as were many other leaders of the time. Keep...
View ArticlePolicing in PNG is failing the interests of citizens
PNG police have been subject to recent criticism for not dealing forcefully with heinous crimes against citizens. PAUL OATES looks at relevant historical, cultural and political factors…. THE CONCEPT...
View ArticleGillard and Bryce to visit PNG in late April, May
KEITH JACKSON TWO PROMINENT AUSTRALIAN WOMEN, including prime minister Julia Gillard, will be visiting Papua New Guinea over the next few weeks. In a strangely low-key announcement by the PNG Events...
View ArticleBen’s PNG Diary: Day 7 – Our forebears would be proud
BEN JACKSON I SPENT TODAY WITH Jimmy, Wayne, Tyler and Rob; four young indigenous Aussies who are visiting Papua New Guinea as part of a joint Rio Tinto-AFL program, Footy Means Business. A...
View ArticleErereng
LEONARD FONG ROKA IN 2003 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PNG, I came across a book (time has made me forget the title) written by an expatriate woman about her life as a house wife in Arawa in the early 1970s....
View ArticleWest Papua push gains strength in Melanesia
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL JOHNNY BLADES reports that the election of New Caledonia Kanak & Socialist National Liberation Front spokesperson, Victor Tutugoro, as chairman of the Melanesian...
View ArticleBush doctor: Behind the Dr Barry Kirby story
JO CHANDLER IT WAS MY LABOUR OF LOVE, two years of dreaming and plotting to track down Dr Barry Kirby, and pretty nail-biting in the end, for me as a new freelancer, as to whether his story would ever...
View ArticleMeninga begins training PNG's rugby league team
AUSTRALIA NETWORK NEWS AUSTRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE LEGEND Mal Meninga has begun training Papua New Guinea's national rugby league team. Meninga signed on last month to become the Kumuls' high performance...
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NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS It's the usual practice of PNG Attitude to publish contributions within a few days of receipt. However, as the editor is soon to skive off on an extensive trip to the other side...
View ArticleBen’s PNG Diary – Day 8: A smile impossible to erase
BEN JACKSON EVEN AS A NEWCOMER to Port Moresby I seem to find myself running into people I know. I ended the day in the wildly imaginative company of Emmanuel Narokobi and Martyn Namorong (you can see...
View ArticleAitape tsunami changed the face of bible translation
NICOLA MENZIE | The Christian Post A MASSIVE TSUNAMI triggered by a magnitude seven earthquake wiped out thousands of villages, claimed hundreds of lives and forever changed the way Bible translations...
View ArticleIt’s the end of the journey that matters
DAVID GONOL I WROTE THIS POEM with deep conviction that how we start our journey doesn’t really matter but how we end it does. History will judge your life on the basis of the end of your journey. You...
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