Back in the village there’s email & social development
JANE AWI GREETINGS FROM THE VILLAGE of Ganigle near Kerowagi in the Simbu Province from where I am excited to send this email because this never used to happen before. I would go to town to use the...
View ArticleWhen the Trobriand isles met the swinging sixties
PHIL FITZPATRICK THIS STORY APPEARED in the December 1975 edition of Papua New Guinea Writing (No. 20). The theme is not unusual but the content, considering the time, is quite explicit. The...
View ArticleIt’s not the land laws – it’s the people who run them
PHIL FITZPATRICK PAPUA NEW GUINEA has got a perfectly workable land system and laws. Only the local people (94%+) and the government can own land. This is a principle that dates back to the times of...
View ArticleAustralians & PNGns work together for good health
INMYCOMMUNITY.COM.AU THE EMERGENCY ROOM at St John of God Murdoch Hospital may be a world away from a clinic in a tin shed in Papua New Guinea, but they’re both designed to save lives. Emergency nurse...
View ArticleAsylum seekers: an opportunity for PNG to shine
STEVE W LABUAN IF PAPUA NEW GUINEA is to truly benefit from the asylum seeker deal, it must have in place a policy of sustainability. Commentator Tony Flynn has acutely remarked on the size and...
View ArticleAsylum seekers: Crude & impulsive aid package
EMMA WAKPI IF THE AID MONEY currently being poured into Papua New Guinea is not being effectively used to implement real change on the ground due to a despicably corrupt bureaucratic system, how in the...
View ArticleSimplicity & economy make this early short story sing
PHIL FITZPATRICK JOHN JOB, A HIGHLANDER, was completing a degree in politics when the following story was published in Ondobondo No 4 in mid-1984. It was his first published work. While reading through...
View ArticleIf Dekla says Papua New Guinea is Eden, then it is
FRANCIS SINA NII IN NEED OF VITAMIN D from heaven’s abundant supply, I was wheeled in my battered wheelchair down to the helipad at the southern end of Kundiawa’s Sir Joseph Nombri Memorial hospital,...
View ArticlePNG people must rise up to face the evil of corruption
LUCAS KIAP | PNG Blogs WAKE UP PAPUA NEW GUINEANS; we are not living in an imaginary paradise world any more. Corruption in this country is real, serious and eating deeply into development funds meant...
View ArticleNew faith grows in a vehemently Christian nation
JO CHANDLER | Global Mail LIKE SO MANY MOSQUES around the world, the one in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby became a lightning rod for explosive distress and anger against Islam in the...
View ArticleFor a few silver coins, integrity has been sold
GARY JUFFA | Namorong Report A FEW FOOLISH SO-CALLED LEADERS have stood by an act of such outrageous magnitude whereby an entire nation, perhaps two, have been dragged by the force of one man’s...
View ArticleCapital punishment soon to be implemented in PNG
FR GIORGIO LICINI DEATH SENTENCES WILL soon be carried out in Papua New Guinea. This was confirmed this week at a Symposium on Capital and Corporal Punishment at Divine Word University in Madang by...
View ArticlePioneering PNG aviator Laurie Crowley dies at 93
JIM EAMES | Sydney Morning Herald LAURIE CROWLEY (1920-2013) arrived in Papua New Guinea in 1948 and during the next 20 years made an indelible mark on civil aviation, from the establishment of a...
View ArticleNew PNG poetry: 'Embraced through éclairs'
EMMA WAKPI It was a Tuesday evening I remember well Agnes, Gertrud and I With Ruth around her table After dinner conversations Stories, memories and jokes Then got talking about food And I mentioned...
View ArticlePlays, playwrights & the odd bit of kiap bashing
PHIL FITZPATRICK THE LITERARY MAGAZINE Papua New Guinea Writing No 30 of June 1978 didn’t become available until early 1979. It was dedicated to plays and published by the Institute of Papua New Guinea...
View ArticleHow Andrew Ami was named. Born as Siuema burned
LEONARD FONG ROKA “THE DAY OUR VILLAGE WAS TORCHED by the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) in 1989,” Andrew Ami (pictured) told me, “I was born in the bushes close to our village but safe from...
View ArticleTransparency International’s kranki corruption index
This article by ALEX COBHAM, from the journal Foreign Policy, casts a shadow over the credibility of TI’s corruption perception Index – a measure that annually places Papua New Guinea in the ‘basket...
View ArticleOde to a hospital once beset by the scourge of politics
FRANCIS NII I DO NOT OFTEN WRITE POETRY but, when I do; there are two things that I exclude - the complex structuring of fine words and the fine structuring of complex words. My objective is to present...
View ArticleTough issues: O’Neill on wealth, corruption & Manus
JOHNNY BLADES | Radio New Zealand International PAPUA NEW GUINEA’S PRIME MINISTER, Peter O’Neill, says his administration is going further than any previous government in addressing core issues that...
View ArticleMost commented upon PNG Attitude writing in July
KEITH JACKSON IT WAS THE MONTH of the great asylum seeker deal between Kevin Rudd and Peter O’Neill and our readers are still not allowing anyone to forget it. A feisty lot, our readers. But if there...
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