Sudden death of Kevin Trueman in Port Vila
DAVID WALL & FRIENDS FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLE who knew Kevin Trueman, or who knew of him, the news of his sudden death in Vanuatu last Friday night after feeling unwell at dinner was received with much...
View ArticleComplications emerge in PNG’s relations with China
ROWAN CALLICK | The Australian PAPUA NEW GUINEA's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has written to Public Enterprises Minister Ben Micah asking him to review a $300 million deal with China's ZTE Corporation...
View ArticlePNG war hero Bruce Peterson AM MC dies at 94
RUTH WEST | Sydney Morning Herald | Extracts DURING WORLD WAR II, BRUCE PETERSON (1918-2013) did two tours of duty in Papua New Guinea where he was mentioned in dispatches and won the Military Cross....
View ArticleThe cry of Kavaronari
ISHMAEL PALIPAL IN THE DAYS before the operation of the Panguna mine, the Kavarong River (now called Tungpu meaning dirty) was full of water animals, fish, prawns, eels and shell creatures. It was said...
View ArticleA Bougainville Manifesto: (3) A negation of colonisation
LEONARD FONG ROKA TO THE IMPERIALIST in the European colonisation era, the discovery of a people or an island in the savage world was good news for boosting one’s power and prestige. But it was all...
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Your editor arrived back in Sydney this morning after seven weeks overseas and thought he should remind dear readers that they also need to be dear writers. Issues abound in Papua New Guinea and...
View ArticleProfiling Barbara Jephcott – PNG cattle industry pioneer
TONI SOMES | Toowoomba Chronicle AS ONE OF THE FIRST FEMALE VETERINARIANS in Queensland, Barbara Jephcott always expected a few blokes would question her career choice. But she proved her ability on...
View ArticleADI appeals to Australians to help fund PNG healthcare
DR PETER MACDONALD | President | Australian Doctors International MOST AUSTRALIANS WOULD BE UNAWARE of the parlous state of the health system in Papua New Guinea. It is well known that PNG has one of...
View ArticleFrancis Batana: without violence we were nobodies
LEONARD FONG ROKA NOW MARRIED WITH FIVE DAUGHTERS and a lucrative business buying gold and cocoa and operating PMVs in the Tumpusiong Valley of the Panguna District, Francis Batana says the fight he...
View ArticleNew approaches to improving governance in PNG
STEPHEN HOWES | Development Policy Blog |Edited ULTIMATELY, GOVERNANCE IN Papua New Guinea is a matter for PNG itself. But [aid] donors can play a useful role at the margin. I have long advocated that...
View ArticleAgainst the odds: how I won the tuberculosis lottery
JO CHANDLER | The Global Mail | Extract IT’S AGAINST THE ODDS that the M. tuberculosis should find a nook to settle and thrive within a healthy, well-nourished, vaccinated host like myself....
View ArticleWithout violence we were nobodies: A tragedy we share
JOHN FOWKE THERE WILL BE AN END to Bougainville’s tragedy. It may be long in coming but it will be a positive ending. First though, proper understanding must come from outside. Understanding must come...
View ArticleLandowners set out their Panguna preconditions
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL DESPITE REPORTS IN the Papua New Guinea media that negotiations to re-open the huge Panguna mine on Bougainville are ready to start, a landowner leader says there are a...
View ArticleWenda: In 20 years West Papuans will disappear
DAMIEN McELROY | Daily Telegraph (UK) BENNY WENDA GREW UP in the remote highlands of West Papua, the former Dutch colony on the island of New Guinea which passed into Indonesian control in the early...
View ArticleThe lingering joy of burning a BCL chopper
LEONARD FONG ROKA THE ATTACK GANG CREPT down the ‘V’ shaped waterway towards the main road heading into Tumpusiong Valley. Their task: to torch a Bougainville Copper (BCL) contracted helicopter, which...
View ArticlePapua & security on agenda at PNG-Indonesia talks
JAKARTA GLOBE ON A THREE-DAY VISIT to Indonesia over this weekend, Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O’Neill is discussing the key issues of trade, border security and extradition. “We want to...
View ArticleMuch-loved Brother Andrew Simpson dies in Madang
JOE FORMEX WASIA MY EYES WELLED UP with tears when, on the evening EMTV bulletin, I saw that this great man, the Australian Christian brother, Andrew Simpson CFC, Vice President of Divine Word...
View ArticleThe convergence of cultures - PNG’s great challenge
MICHAEL DOM IN A RECENT COMMENT in PNG Attitude, former kiap Chris Overland made two very important points that we Bougainvilleans and Papua New Guineans need to come to terms with: (1) We did not have...
View ArticleBougainville Day celebrations held around PNG
ISHMAEL PALIPAL BOUGAINVILLE DAY IS AN ANNUAL celebration to commemorate the day on which Bougainville was granted autonomous self-government. Since its inauguration at Hahela on 15 June 2005, it has...
View ArticleProgress towards proposed anti-corruption agency
NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP | Extracts THIS DISCUSSION PAPER has been developed for the purposes of engaging Papua New Guineans in the government’s development of a...
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