A Blueprint for Kokoda Pilgrimage Tourism
The 138 km Kokoda Trail, a 10 metre-wide corridor on either side of the tracks over which the...
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Author: Charlie
Cape York Peninsula & Kokoda Trail under threat from Canberra’s Environment Zealots!
Peter Garrett, lead singer for ‘Midnight Oil’, is a well meaning environmentalist – but he can afford to be with a net worth of around $10 million (PNGK25 million).
Not so the woman sitting in her small hut in the Nauro swamp area alongside her young son with a net worth of a few kilos of ‘kai kai’ (sweet potato), some taro, corn and an assortment of local fruit!
Garrett is also a former Minister for Environment under the Rudd Labor government – he didn’t waste any time forcing his extreme environmental agenda on indigenous communities in the Cape York Peninsula area and along the Kokoda Trail.
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KOKODA ANTI-TOURISM AUTHORITY
NG is now the only country in the world which allows its most popular tourism destination to be managed as an environment park controlled by foreign aid-funded environment officials, consultants, anthropologists, archeologists, and social engineers rather than as a tourism enterprise for the economic benefit of traditional landowner communities!
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A Chronicle of our Kokoda Journey: 1991-2024
Over the past 32 years I have led 101 expeditions across the Kokoda Trail. During this time I have also travelled to Canberra to brief eight of the 11 Ministers for Veterans Affairs and three of the Ministers for International Aid and the Pacific, on the need to protect our shared military heritage across the Kokoda Trail.
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Index: Major Charlie Lynn’s Adventure Kokoda Blogs
These papers, submissions and articles in the following blogs encapsulate my 32-year involvement with the Kokoda Trail in particular, and PNG in general. During this time, I was able to lead 101 expeditions across the Trail and share the experience with more than 2,000 wonderful Australians from all walks of life.
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