Papua New Guinea
Everyone gets at least one lucky break in life, or so the saying goes. For me, one of the luckiest was a childhood spent in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In 1966, my father left Melbourne for what was then the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, prompted by curiosity and the opportunity to work on kuru, a fatal neurogenerative disease affecting the Fore people of the Eastern Highlands. My mother joined him two years later, in 1968, and in PNG they remained until 1990.
... (read more)The Road by John Martinkus & Too Close to Ignore edited by Mark Moran and Jodie Curth-Bibb
by Kieran Pender •
Australia’s Northern Shield?: Papua New Guinea and the defence of Australia since 1880 by Bruce Hunt
by Seumas Spark •
Playing the Game: Life and politics in Papua New Guinea by Julius Chan
by Lyndon Megarrity •
A Trial Separation: Australia and the decolonisation of Papua New Guinea by Donald Denoon
by Allan Patience •
Making ‘Black Harvest’: Warfare, filmmaking and living dangerously in the highlands of Papua New Guinea by Bob Connolly
by Sarah Kanowski •
Papua New Guinea: A Political History by James Griffin, Hank Nelson, and Firth Stewart
by Harry H. Jackman •