Proposal for a Master Plan to develop the Kokoda Trail as a National Memorial Park

Posted by Charlie | Jun 28, 1994 | OUR VIEWPOINT | 0

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Picture: Charlie Lynn and guide, Alex Rama, at Kokoda, at the end of his first solo trek in March 1991

Trekking Kokoda was very much an ‘ad hoc’ arrangement from the time we led our first group across in 1992.

There were no established facilities in place, no communication systems and no reliable maps.

But of more concern, there was no interest in the place from the Australian government.

This paper, submitted in 1994, was based on feedback we had received from our trekkers over the previous four years and our discussions with our PNG support crews and local villagers.

The need for a Master Plan was evident in those early days along with memorials at significant sites.

Proposal for a Master Plan to develop the Kokoda Trail as a National Memorial Park

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Proposal for a Master Plan to develop the Kokoda Trail as a National Memorial Park 1994 The first ever proposal to develop a Master Plan to develop the Kokoda Trail as a National Memorial Park

Proposal for a Master Plan to develop the Kokoda Trail as a National Memorial Park

About The Author

Charlie

Charlie Lynn is a former army major and former Parliamentary Secretary for Veterans Affairs in the New South Wales Parliament. In 2015 he was inducted as an 'Officer of the Logohu' by the PNG Government in their New Years’ Honours List ‘for service to the bilateral relations between Papua New Guinea and Australia and especially in the development of the Kokoda Trail and its honoured place in the history of both nations’ over the past 25 years'. In 2018 he was inducted as a 'Member of the Order of Australia' for his services to the NSW Parliament. He has led 101 expeditions across the Kokoda Trail since 1991.