Holmes goes tropical: 3 – All Greek to me
PETER ‘CONAN’ KRANZ A YEAR EARLIER Watson walked into Holmes's study at Baker Street. "Holmes, we haven't heard from you for weeks! Whatever can have absorbed your interest?""Ah Watson, I have been...
View ArticleMore visitors in 2012 despite political instability
FRANCIS SINA NII THE UNPRECEDENTED POLITICAL impasse and the scary election-related dark clouds of 2012 did not deter people of other countries landing on Papua New Guinea’s shores. A total of 175,000...
View ArticleCollection of 400 PNG artefacts on the way home
TIMOTHY POPE | Radio Australia THE NATIONAL MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY in Papua New Guinea is preparing to take possession of more than 300 sculptures, artworks and cultural artefacts which are being...
View ArticleHolmes goes tropical: 4 – No toy like a lakatoi
PETER ‘CONAN’ KRANZ ERROL BOND ACCOMPANIED Holmes down a road to the waterfront, arriving at an insignificant grass hut on Koki beach. "Holmes, come to my office, we have to talk." They walked inside....
View ArticleTackling the curse of hate in PNG
MARK BAKER | The Age (Melbourne) BRIAN LEAHY'S FATHER was one of the first white men to set foot in the New Guinea highlands, among the last regions on Earth to be explored by Europeans. In 1934, Dan...
View ArticleResource-rich provinces rank poorly in service delivery
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL THE LATEST PROVINCIAL expenditure review in Papua New Guinea has pinpointed several resource-rich provinces to be failing in the delivery of basic services. Western, New...
View ArticleHolmes goes tropical: 5 – Meeting Mad Malinowski
PETER ‘CONAN’ KRANZ “GOTT IM HIMMEL!” shouted the irascible Professor Malinowski. “Who is interrupting me now?” “Forgive our intrusion Professor. I am Sherlock Holmes, and may I introduce Dr Watson and...
View ArticleMédecins Sans Frontières opens clinic for abuse victims
HELEN DAVIDSON | Guardian Australia THE FIRST FRONTLINE CLINIC to offer treatment for both medical and psychological injuries of victims of physical and sexual abuse has opened in Papua New Guinea, a...
View ArticleMost commented upon Attitude articles in June
KEITH JACKSON THAT TIME of the month again, perhaps a bit late, eh. I add the ‘eh’ in deference to my impending arrival in Queensland in a couple of weeks’ time. A reformed cockroach about to join the...
View ArticleHolmes goes tropical: 6 – Mountains of mystery
PETER ‘CONAN’ KRANZ THE DORNIER AIRCRAFT lumbered down Wards Strip and, three engines groaning, clawed its way into the air. Watson, intrigued, looked out of the window. “Holmes, that's Mt Victoria, so...
View ArticleReligion, healing & violence against women in PNG
ERIK CAMPANO | Stories Untold Blog ONE QUESTION THAT MANY WESTERNERS are puzzled about is how to provide safe spaces for survivors of family and sexual abuse to report what happened to them,...
View ArticleWill my late uncle get a PNG patrol officer’s medal?
ALISON COLLINS MY UNCLE WENT TO PORT MORESBY as an 18-year old to train and work as a patrol officer. He lived in Papua New Guinea until his death by murder in December 1976. At the time of his death...
View ArticleHolmes goes tropical: 7 – Greater love hath no man...
PETER ‘CONAN’ KRANZ OVER SEVERAL DAYS WALK, Holmes, Watson and Bond made their painful way along ancient tracks into the mountains and eventually smelled the unmistakable aroma of a great fall of...
View ArticlePNG police culture on Bougainville, 1988-90
LEONARD FONG ROKA AS THE BOUGAINVILLE CONFLICT came into existence in the late 1980s, Papua New Guinea deployed a ruthless police presence to crush Bougainvilleans once and for all. But their impact...
View ArticleWriters speak out: The tragedy of male violence in PNG
KEITH JACKSON TWO PROMINENT WRITERS HAVE SAID Papua New Guinea is a “sick society” and warned that male culture must change if the country is to be socially integrated and economically successful....
View ArticleApproaching madness - and Death leers at us all
DAVID WALL IN THE MORNING I awake and talk to myself. The certainties of life are gone! The Rock of Saint Peter is no longer solid. The British Empire is gone. The ascendancy of the Anglo Saxon is no...
View ArticleBougainville considers lifting exploration moratorium
BUSINESS ADVANTAGE PNG BOUGAINVILLE LEADERS ARE CONSIDERING lifting the moratorium on mineral exploration which has been in place since the 1970s, in case the Panguna gold and copper mine does not...
View ArticleNew isolation ward boosts fight against TB in PNG
AUSAID THE EFFORT TO STOP TUBERCULOSIS in Papua New Guinea received a boost this week with the opening of new specialist treatment facilities at Daru General Hospital in the Western Province....
View ArticleFalling apart! Is anyone actually running PNG?
PHIL FITZPATRICK I RECENTLY ATTENDED A CONFERENCE in Port Moresby. There was a sprinkling of academics from the University of Papua New Guinea, as well as professionals from both the public and private...
View ArticleA country of individual societies needing to act as one
EMMA WAKPI WHEN YOU HAVE DIFFERENT ETHNIC CULTURES steeped in their age old belief systems with very little formal education and the global world encroaching upon them and telling them what they should...
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