Owers Corner: Neglected Gateway to the Kokoda Trail
For reasons known only to Australian Aid-funded officials Owers Corner doesn’t rate, and the local community doesn’t matter!
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Author: Charlie
Kokoda Trail Bridges: Prefabricated or Traditional?
The challenge we face is informing those who control the purse strings, no matter how well intentioned they are, of the REALITY of the Kokoda experience for the paying customers i.e., trekkers.
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Kokoda: The enemy within!
The discovery of a $3 billion gold and copper deposit on the southern slopes of the Trail provided the ‘emergency’ they needed to derail the mining approval, compensate landowners, and offer to ‘manage’ the Trail on their behalf.
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Time for a National Civil Service Scheme
More than a decade before invasive social media introduced a new level of nothingness into our...
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‘Papa’ Grand Chief, The honourable, sir michael somare GCL GCMG CH CF SSI KSG PC – tenk yu tru
‘Papa Grand Chief’ will forever be to Papua New Guinea what Lee Kwan Yew was to Singapore; Ghandi was to India; Nelson Mandela was to South Africa – a giant of his era and an inspiration for future generations.
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