Only December.... but never too early to enter The Crocodile Prize
K25,000 in prize money! A K5,000 prize in each of these five categories…. Cleland Family Award for Heritage Literature Steamships Award for Short Stories Kina Securities Award for Poetry PNG Chamber of...
View ArticlePetition to stop heritage destruction gathers pace globally
KEITH JACKSON AN INTERNET PETITION ASKING prime minister Peter O’Neill to intervene to stop Speaker Theo Zurenuoc (pictured) from destroying significant parts of Papua New Guinea’s national cultural...
View ArticlePanguna mine landowners’ umbrella group splinters
LEONARD FONG ROKA THE PANGUNA MINE LANDOWNER groups have decided to dissolve their umbrella body, the Panguna Mine Affected Landowner Associations (PMALA), which covered nine landowners groups with...
View ArticlePNG Attitude’s most commented upon writing in November
KEITH JACKSON NOVEMBER WAS THE MONTH in which The Crocodile Prize was reinvigorated with the signing of a bunch of good sponsors who will underpin PNG’s national literary awards in 2014, ensuring that...
View ArticleA true story: The good and ugly faces of Christmas
FRANCIS S NII An entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mining & Petroleum Award for Short Stories CHRISTMAS HAS ALL KINDS of faces. For Christians around the world it is the time for the...
View ArticleHeritagegate: Parliament for the people, by the people
EDITORIAL | PNG Post-Courier THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA NATIONAL PARLIAMENT belongs to the seven million people of this great nation – not the National Parliament Speaker and Finschhafen MP Theo Zurenuoc. It...
View ArticleThe conversation of the strit sellers
DOMINICA ARE An entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Poetry Award We see them every day In front of shops Bus stops Market Along the streets Car parks Almost everywhere Selling their wares...
View ArticleWhat happens next in PNG’s SABL land grab saga?
COLIN FILER | DevPolicy Blog FIVE YEARS HAVE NOW PASSED since the alarm was first raised about the alienation of huge areas of customary land in Papua New Guinea through the grant of Special...
View ArticleCatholic conference warns of rise of fundamentalism in PNG
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL | Compiled from reports FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN SECTS are on the rise in Papua New Guinea says PNG’s Catholic Bishops’ Conference. The comment by conference general...
View ArticleDon't under-estimate resilient & resourceful Bougainvilleans
JOANNE WALLIS | The Strategist PETER JENNINGS AND KARL CLAXTON’s recent ASPI Special Report A stitch in time: Preserving peace on Bougainville represents an important—and necessary—attempt to move...
View ArticleBizarre turns to weird as heritage destruction continues
KEITH JACKSON WHILE PRIME MINISTER PETER O’NEILL has claimed to have intervened to stop further destruction of traditional carvings in Parliament House, there is evidence that the ransacking continues...
View ArticleMedicine & books out as Australia & PNG 'refocus' relationship
KEITH JACKSON WITH AUSTRALIA’S NEW COALITION government having struck rough waters in China, Indonesia and Timor Leste in recent times, it needs all the friends it can keep in the neighbourhood. And...
View ArticleSome supplementary thoughts on religion & carving
FR GIORGIO LICINI | Catholic Reporter WHEN I ENTER A MUSEUM, a government building or even a church in Rome and spot a statue or representation of emperor Caesar Augustus, of course I don’t believe he...
View Article‘Just like riding a tiger’: Ok Tedi’s CEO reflects on a big year
ANDREW WILKINS | Business Advantage PNG Ok Tedi Mining Ltd sponsors the Book of the Year Award in The Crocodile Prize national literary contest IN SOMETHING OF UNDERSTATEMENT, CEO Nigel Parker...
View ArticleThe ASOPA Class of 1966-67 plans its first reunion
KEITH JACKSON YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING ON a bit when you begin saying things like, “It doesn’t feel like 50 years ago.” Well, it doesn’t feel like 50 years ago, in November 1963, that I left the...
View ArticlePNG on verge of ‘war of religion’ says Father Licini
FR GIORGIO LICINI | Catholic Reporter PAPUA NEW GUINEA is on the verge of its own dangerous “war of religion” after just a few days ago the country woke up to the unthinkable. A Parliament House...
View ArticleMinisters demand sacking of Speaker over vandalism
RADIO AUSTRALIA A CONFLICT OVER THE DESTRUCTION of cultural carvings outside Papua New Guinea's Parliament House has escalated, with a group of MPs calling for the parliament's speaker to be sacked....
View ArticleFlicker of hope is seen in long-running Schram affair
KEITH JACKSON ON 8 FEBRUARY THIS YEAR, the vice-chancellor of the University of Technology in Lae, Albert Schram (pictured), was deported from Papua New Guinea. No justification was given for this...
View ArticleCrimson Regret
J P RICHARD An entry in The Crocodile Prize Kina Securities Award for Poetry The poem is about foreseeing an inevitable break-up from a long term relationship, preparing the heart for the worst - JPR...
View ArticleRemoving tambaran carvings is a stepping stone to change
FRANCIS S NII THE OPPONENTS OF THE REMOVAL of carvings and art work at the National Parliament under the direction of Speaker Theo Zurenuoc have ignored two important facts in their arguments. First,...
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