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Neo-liberal dogma seen in Oz Covid failures
Cartoonist Mark David depicts treasurer Frydenberg and prime minister Morrison's flawed efforts in managing the pandemic and the economyCHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE – Keith Jackson has rightly written...
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Don't privatise our customary land
Menya River (Brian Chapaitis)ACT NOW!PORT MORESBY - This article breaks down some of the myths used to justify the privatisation of customary land.It makes clear that efforts to privatise land are not...
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Covid is now a China-Australia power play
PNG prime minister James Marape receives 15 ventilators donated by the Chinese governmentJULIA HOLLINGSWORTH & BEN WESTCOTTCNN Digital Worldwide | Edited extractsLink here for the complete...
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Australia seeks to best China in Digicel deal
Digicel Pacific's billionaire owner Denis O'Brien knows he's selling an asset of massive strategic importanceKEITH JACKSONNOOSA – As China Mobile lines up to swoop on Digicel’s mobile phone networks...
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A crack in the Pacific's glass ceiling
Fiame Naomi Mataafa (UN Women, Ellie van Baaren)KERRYN BAKER| ANU ReporterCANBERRA - In April, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa caused the political equivalent of an earthquake for Samoa.The long-serving and...
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Rio agrees to review of Panguna impacts
Tailings waste flowing into Konawiru-Jaba River delta on the Bougainville west coastSTEFAN ARMBRUSTER| SBS NewsBRISBANE - Multinational mining giant Rio Tinto has agreed to fund an independent...
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N’gego – Melanesia’s house of governance
Haus Tambaran, Palambei, Middle Sepik. Duncan Gavin argues that PNG’s Parliament House should not be called a Haus TambaranDUNCAN GABI| Aunamelo Independent BlogMADANG – Papua New Guinea’s parliament...
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Identity & parlance: This is who we are
LUKE PEARSON| IndigenousXSYDNEY - I run a media, training and consultancy company called IndigenousX. It is 100% Indigenous owned and staffed. We work on local, regional, national, and international...
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Australia & PNG: Pawns in ‘The Great Game’
The New Great GameCHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE – So there is a contest between Australia and China (through surrogates Telstra and China Mobile) to buy the ailing Digicel Pacific’s mobile phone networks in...
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Blunting a few, grilli & gumi races
The Moresby Hotel, 1964HENRY SIMS| From the ArchiveMARCH 1968 – Life for us in Papua New Guinea began in a multiplex Single Officers Quarters in Gavamani Road, Boroko.We had just arrived from a cold...
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A prosateur writes on best prosateurs
Clive JamesCLIVE JAMES| Australian Book ReviewThe late Clive James (1938-2019), born and raised in Sydney, wrote this review of The Best Australian Essays 2002 (edited by Peter Craven and published by...
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PNG’s birthers: unrecognised & unresourced
Village Birth Attendants Ruth Natia and Mandy Namis - "If they say it’s budgeted for women, it doesn’t reach us. It gets lost somewhere in transition"DIANNE-MANDUI-MIRIO| My Land, My CountryLAE – I was...
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When the green eagle flew
Gagl Primary School in 1966 - playground, three classrooms, Wahgi Valley and Kubor RangeKEITH JACKSON| From the ArchiveNOOSA - My school teaching career lasted three years, entirely conducted in Papua...
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A privileged life with adventures to be had
Adventures to be had. Exploring the high hills in the 1950s. Kiap Harry West OAM on patrolCHRIS OVERLANDADELAIDE - I enjoyed Henry Sims’ recollection (‘Blunting a few, grilli & gumi races’) of the...
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Power, hedonism & the best years of our lives
Power, privilege and office - Phil Fitzpatrick, like other kiaps, was a sworn commissioned officer in the field constabulary branch of the Royal Papua and New Guinea ConstabularyPHILIP FITZPATRICKTUMBY...
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The book that went missing for 50 years
Marie Reay wrote the the first, book on women’s lives in the PNG Highlands. It was not discovered for 50 years (Noel Butlin)FRANCESCA MERLANWives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society by...
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The Kokoda Trail & the enemy within
CHARLIE LYNN| Adventure KokodaSYDNEY - A 1,400% increase in the number of Australians trekking Kokoda after the opening of the Isurava Memorial in 2002 would normally be hailed an outstanding result...
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Rio ready to deal with unfinished business
Influential Bougainville politician, Theonila Matbob - Prominent in advocating that Rio Tinto should accept responsibility for cleaning up Panguna's devastating legacyKEITH JACKSONNOOSA – After several...
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Great NG airship expedition that never happened
Postcard printed in 1913 to pre-order of the Pf2, Mk1 and never-produced Mk20 stamps. Only known copy in existencePETER KRANZMORRISET – It is an historical oddity more like an absurdist Monty Python...
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Dadae fears PNG disintegration may be ‘inevitable’
Sir Bob DadaeKEITH JACKSONNOOSA - Papua New Guinea’s governor-general Sir Bob Dadae says the country’s disintegration is ‘inevitable’ if Bougainville continues to press for secession and other...
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