The many celebrations across Australia this past weekend demonstrates our connection to this 50-year-old nation, regardless of our culture, race of ethnicity. PNG is in the hearts of so many: the indigenous population, the expats who served there in the Missionaries, Schools, or Administration and their children, the sojourners who came from somewhere else and … Continue reading Happy 50th Papua New Guinea.

Congratulations to those who came before who set in place the structures; congratulations to those from all levels who built upon the foundation, and continue into the future to build a nation - and most importantly congratulations to the citizens of Papua New Guinea. Fifty years is a great achievement. I lived in Rabaul only … Continue reading Happy 50th PNG 1975-2025

One woman's journey into the next phase of her life, a future phase about which she has been in denial, but that now is unavoidable. Billy Corass, a mature-aged long-distance runner who, after a fall during her most recent event, finds herself ‘temporarily' placed in residential care.

A countless number of Brisbane readers may discover glimpses of themselves in a work of fiction entitled Between and written by Wendy Glassby. These are the descendants of Tong Ah Ying from Hainan China and Medor Santas from Java who met and married in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Today, the descendants of their six children … Continue reading An ex-PNG family’s reunion in Brisbane inspires a work of fiction: ‘Between’ by Wendy Glassby

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin Here's a suggestion for a good read

“When it comes to Papua New Guinea, Kokoda or other military campaigns are considered far higher, and the stories of civilians have been pushed into the background ..." “Just before the Japanese occupied New Guinea, there was a desperate scramble to get out white women and children, it was an epic evacuation but people of … Continue reading Another forgotten story

Today I received the news that SBS would be showing footage of the liberation in 1945 of Chinese people from the labour camp of Ratongor on the Gazelle Peninsula near Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. For some reason Australian historians have overlooked our own Pearl Harbour, a tragedy that might be declared then, months before, as … Continue reading Rabaul Chinese, visible at last