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Tag - PNG history

Ron May: first contact

by Ronald J. May
October 1, 2021
Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama at the Poka Youth Summit in Poka Village

Bougainville’s President Toroama: part two – business and music activities

by Anthony Regan
June 29, 2021
Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (centre) at a reconciliation ceremony in Tonu

Bougainville’s President Toroama: part one – a little-known new leader

by Anthony Regan
June 29, 2021
Signing the Arawa land lease documents in 1970

A kiap in Bougainville: lessons for today

by Anthony Regan
June 25, 2021
PNG’s first prime minister, Michael Somare, and first Governor-General, John Guise, at the Independence Day ceremony in 1975

Obituary: Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare

by Ronald J. May
February 26, 2021
Reflections on a decade of teaching at UPNG

Reflections after a decade at the University of Papua New Guinea

by Patrick Kaiku
February 22, 2021
Third-born daughter, Nancy Kumanyal (in PNG meri blouse and hat), and Nepe Kumanyal (in Akubra hat) with other family members in the PNG National Museum Theatrette, August 2015.

For God, country, or what? Nepe Kumanyal’s war

by Gregory Bablis
October 21, 2020
Former PNG PM Michael Somare (left) with current PM Peter O'Neill (right) (Credit: PNG Blogs)

Political developments in Papua New Guinea in a historical context

by Michelle Nayahamui Rooney
May 3, 2019
British flag raised on New Guinea, 1883

The ties that bind: the Australia-PNG relationship

by Michael Wesley
August 17, 2017
Voices from the War cover image

Voices from the war: PNG stories of the Kokoda Campaign

by Timothy Pirinduo
June 27, 2017
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