PNG stories with context.
Culture, policy, and lived experience — beyond headlines.
PNG stories with context.
Culture, policy, and lived experience — beyond headlines.
I didn’t quite realise how many people I touched positively through this work. It has been an emotional week talking to and encouraging, especially younger staff in Lae, Port Moresby, and the outer bureaus. This transition has been harder on […]
Our economic investment model as it relates to job creation is wrong. We have had it wrong for nearly half a century. We followed a colonial model of job creation where an enterprise is established, jobs are created and people […]
I remember the first time I heard Johnny Clegg’s song ‘Asimbonaga.’ It was in Goroka. It was a cold afternoon. It played off a cassette. I thought Johnny Clegg was a black South African. His music was sweet to the […]
Three years ago, I asked my dad what the role of women was in his culture and how women were treated. This was when another incident of violence came to the fore. I needed to understand how his culture dealt […]
I remain fascinated and blessed with the respect shown by Karate students to each other regardless of rank, age, skill or gender. I am not an “expert” nor am I a student of high esteem. I am still far off from those qualities mentioned. But […]
In 2020, we went to each of the 10 health centers in Lae City with forms on which the officers in charge would state what medicines were in short supply and what for how long the problem had existed. Each […]
I’ve been making ginger lemon tea with honey infusions for 10 years now. It started as an experiment when we lived in Madang because the ingredients were plentiful and we got regular supplies of honey from the Eastern Highlands. Only […]
We have to get this right if we are to thrive in this country: The quality of transport infrastructure – especially roads and bridges – determines the price of food. Apart from consumption, this single factor influences the rate of […]
The primary weapon of choice for the tribes spread out over the Upper Watut to Aseki, Menyamya, Kaintiba in the Gulf Province and Marawaka in Easter Highlands is the bow and arrow. Theirs was a culture into which I was […]
If you don’t like the state of the country, commit yourself to changing it. You don’t have to be in politics to do it. If there is trash outside your fence, pick it up. It is not the job of […]
