After half a million deaths, the tragedy of West Papua continues
GEMIMA HARVEY | The Diplomat THE PEOPLE OF WEST PAPUA have been calling for self-determination for half a century – a struggle for liberation from an Indonesian military occupation that has seen as...
View ArticleThe Melanesian fashion atrocity that is the meri blouse
PETER KRANZ WELL I'LL BE FRANK. So-called meri blouses are an abomination. Shapeless body drapes introduced by sexually-frustrated missionaries and Colonial Colonel Blimps (who had probably never seen...
View ArticleForget quality, PNG medicines OK (or so Tenders Board says)
PAUL OATES IN AN AMAZING REVELATION, Mr Babaga Naime, Secretary of the PNG Central Supply and Tenders Board, has issued a statement confirming that Borneo Pacific (BPP) does not need to meet ISO9001 as...
View ArticlePNG appoints Colonel Gilbert Toropo as new military chief
KARL CLAXTON | The Strategist SMART, MEASURED AND ENERGETIC, Colonel Gilbert Toropo seems a good choice to be Papua New Guinea’s next Defence Force Commander. He’ll need to be. Even the circumstances...
View ArticleTit for tat politics: Warrant issued for arrest of Belden Namah
KEITH JACKSON REPORTS FROM PORT MORESBY late this afternoon say a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Papua New Guinea's opposition leader, Belden Namah, who is alleged to have threatened Police...
View ArticleBeyond expectations - A girl's education in New Guinea
DOMINICA ARE An entry in The Crocodile Prize Steamships Short Story Award The girls’ boarding school I WAS 14 WHEN I LEFT HOME to attend boarding school at Notre Dame High (now secondary) School in the...
View ArticleBuai ban will be of limited duration say Port Moresby officials
FR GIORGIO LICINI | Catholic Reporter THE TOTAL BUAI (BETEL NUT) BAN in Port Moresby will remain in place, but not for ever. This was revealed by officials from the National Capital District Commission...
View ArticleProfit motive: A different perspective on the Kula trade
MIKE REID | Tribal Mystic Blog ANTI-CAPITALISTS LIKE TO USE examples of supposedly selfless gift exchanges in “primitive” societies to contrast with the greedy behaviour of modern markets. But a closer...
View ArticleAid groups accuse Coalition of broken promises, but PNG spared
LENORE TAYLOR | The Guardian | Extracts AUSTRALIAN AID GROUPS ARE ACCUSING the Federal Coalition government of breaking an election commitment after it revealed their funding would be cut mid-year as...
View ArticleGeraint Jones basks in PNG’s new found cricket success
CRICKET COUNTRY PAPUA NEW GUINEA’S GIANT-KILLING acts in the World Cup qualifying tournament has made many in the cricketing world stand up and take notice but the most renowned figure in their...
View ArticlePNG, where violence can seem like the norm for women
THE NEW YORK TIMES PAPUA NEW GUINEA, A DEVELOPING COUNTRY of seven million people with a growing market in the mining of natural resources, is one of the most violent places in the world for women,...
View ArticlePanguna mine group meets to discuss environmental remediation
KEITH JACKSON THE JOINT PANGUNA NEGOTIATION COORDINATION COMMITTEE (JPNCC), which is developing parameters for negotiating the resumption of mining in Bougainville, will hold its next meeting in Port...
View ArticleDespite rumours, ban on Aussie arrival visas did not happen
KEITH JACKSON A BAN ON GRANTING AUSTRALIANS visas on arrival in Papua New Guinea – rumoured to have been imposed from today – did not come into force. PNG’s social media has been running hot with...
View ArticleLasting change in healthy behaviour must come from within
GEORGE KUIAS MANY EXPERTS NOW TELL US that the principal goal of health education should be to change people's habits and attitudes. Unfortunately, such a goal points the finger at what people do...
View ArticleRabaul to play an important role in the ANZAC Centenary
REG YATES The ANMEF (Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force) & Rabaul Association was formed in 2013 for people who have an interest in Australia’s colonial and military history in...
View ArticleIs changing the government a solution to corruption in PNG?
FRANCIS S NII An entry in The Crocodile Prize PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Award for Essays & Journalism IN THE LAST COUPLE of months, there have been deep sentiments for the change of...
View ArticleBitapaka 100 years on - ANMEF programs in PNG & Australia
REG YATES ANMEF IS THE ABBREVIATION OF the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force, which in 1914 was deployed to Rabaul to capture the militarily strategic German wireless station at...
View ArticleWart a parasite! Reflections on the life of a mole
MARLENE DEE GRAY POTOURA An entry in The Crocodile Prize Steamships Short Story Award Imagine a part of your body, a body that you loved and admired, suddenly becomes an issue of dispute…. I LOOKED IN...
View ArticlePNG & Australia: Don’t be shy, say what you think
PHIL FITZPATRICK MANY OF US IN AUSTRALIA are willing to offer advice to Papua New Guinea and especially criticism when our own house is hardly in order. What criticism we do level at our own government...
View ArticleTransparency questions award of pharmaceutical contract
PAUL OATES IN AN IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT over ongoing concerns about the awarding of a contract for the supply and distribution of pharmaceuticals to PNG Health Centres, Transparency International (PNG)...
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