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[MEDIA ARTICLES] [MISCELLANEOUS] [PATROLLING, REPORTS & RECORDS]
[PERSONALITIES] [RESEARCH] [TRIVIA]

MOST RECENT ADDITIONS:

Kuru revamped 11/9/03

Aid has failed the Pacific by Helen Hughes, 7/5/03

Papua New Guinea on the Brink (12/3/03 - The Centre for Independent Studies) and the response by the PNG Parliament on the 13/3/03

In Between: Personal experiences in the 9-year long conflict on Bougainville by James Tanis, late 2002

MEDIA ARTICLES:

Don't write us off, Post Courier 13/2/03

Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, a Radio Australia Asia Pacific Lecture by Klaus Rohland, World Bank, 10 December 2002

Once more into the breach of PNG's hell by Rowan Callick, AFR, 23 November 2002

PNG, a salutary lesson for East Timor by Rowan Callick, AFR, 8 June 2002

Cult of Korapsen by Elizabeth Feizkhan, Time Magazine, 22 April 2002

Capital Punishment by John Wright, Courier Mail, 19 March 2002

Statement on Corruption in PNG by Catholic Bishop's Conference of PNG & SI, 27/4/01

PNG fast money schemes: a financial house of cards collapses by Stan McKenzie, WSWS, 6 July 2000

Why is Papua New Guinea so Hard to Govern? by Sean Dorney, AIIA, 15 November 1999

Tribal fighting, the new reality (a compilation of news cuttings)

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MISCELLANEOUS:

... and this (really) was how PNG was developed by Barry Holloway (no titles here)

In defence of truth - Bob Cole re book "My Gun, My Brother"

Armed assault on Securimax Mt Hagen base (14/4/98)

The time of their PNG lives (NLA review of the PNGAA (ex ROAPNG) Journal UNA VOCE)

What happened to ASOPA?

Kuru

PNG chapter - Transparency International

Is this a serve or is this a serve ...

The Ugly Kiap (our version of the Ugly American)

The PNG flag, crest and name as first suggested ...

Blood

Obituaries

There is a cyber equivalent to our old F.O.J. it is known as a "blog", "blogging" is the latest craze on the internet, for an explanation go to http://www.blogger.com

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PATROLLING, REPORTS & RECORDS:

Patrol Report Index link (Melanesian Studies Resource Center, University of California, San Diego)

Papua New Guinea Records 1883–1942 (National Archives of Australia)

Papua New Guinea Patrol Reports (National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 48)

Records of Papua New Guinea 1883-1942 (National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 148)

Tracing the Northwest Papua Patrol of 1926-28 (a walk from the Fly to the Sepik)

Important Patrol Reports: The Strickland-Purari Patrol 1934-1935 and The Bamu-Purari Patrol 1936.

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PERSONALITIES:

Where are they now - Francis Charles Du Bois 22 February 2003

The amazing man behind Pauline Hanson, John Pasquarelli

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RESEARCH:

Australian Institute of Criminology:

The origin of the kiap system ... an extract from the following Australian Institute of Criminology publication: Women in Transition: Social Control in Papua New Guinea by Cindi Banks, 1993

Pacific Economic Bulletin:

Economic decline and political reform in Papua New Guinea 2 November 2002

Budgeting in a weak state- the new Somare government's first attempt 2 November 2002

Crime and Corruption - Does PNG have the capacity to control it? 2 November 2001

The Centre for Independent Studies:

Aid has failed the Pacific by Helen Hughes, 7/5/03

Papua New Guinea on the Brink by Susan Windybank and Mike Manning, 12/3/03 and the response by the PNG Parliament on the 13/3/03

PNG in need for much more than money by Helen Hughes, 14/8/02

The Menzies Research Centre Lecture Series:

The South Pacific: Policy Taboos, Popular Amnesia and Political Failure by Graeme Dobell, 12 February 2003

The State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Project

Discussion papers:

Disorderly democracy- Political turbulence and institutional reform in Papua New Guinea by R.J. May, 2003

Perspectives on conflict and post conflict by Alan Tidwell and Andy Carl, 2003

Land registration in Papua New Guinea- Competing Perspectives by Tim Curtin, Hartmut Holzknecht and Peter Larmour, 2003

Electoral Governance in Papua New Guinea: Chimbu Poll Diary, June 2002 by Bill Standish, 28 June 2002 (a good "grass roots" tour of one Provinces' recent electoral experience)

Aspects of conflict in the contemporary Papua New Guinea Highlands by James Weiner, Abby McLeod and Charles Yala, 2002

Missionaries, environmentalists, and the Maisin, Papua New Guinea by John Barker, 2002

Building Bridges- Law and Justice Reform in Papua New Guinea by Sinclair Dinnen, 2002

Issues of Governance in Papua New Guinea- Building Roads and Bridges by Philip Hughes, 2000

The Bougainville Conflict- Perspectives from Nasioi by Eugene Ogan, 1999

Bougainville Reconstruction Aid: What are the Issues? by Raymond Apthorpe, 1998

Law, Order and the State in Papua New Guinea by Sinclair Dinnen, 1997

Working papers:

Papua New Guinea: When the extravagant exception is no longer the exception by Hank Nelson, 2003

Australian Aid in the South West Pacific Insider/Outsider Perspectives by Ruth Saovana-Spriggs and Maev O'Collins, 2003

In Between: Personal experiences in the 9-year long conflict on Bougainville by James Tanis, late 2002