After 15 years of roaming Papua New Guinea – climbing mountains, exploring burial caves, attending Highland ‘sing-sings’, leading numerous expeditions across Kokoda, and meeting politicians at the national, provincial and local government levels I thought I was beginning to understand this land of a thousand cultures.
Read More‘Hi, my name is Renee Kennedy and I have recently conquered The Kokoda Trail. ‘Why would a mother of two and physically unfit choose to walk The Kokoda Trail? Well, it all began on 31st August 2005 when my daughter...
Read MoreMotion Moved by The Hon Charlie Lynn MLC in the NSW Legislative Council on 21 September 2006 re the formal acknowledgment of sacrifice by Australian Servicemen and Women. The Hon. CHARLIE LYNN [3.52 p.m.]: I move: “That in...
Read More‘Infantryman’s calvary where the pain of effort, the biting sweat, the hunger the cheerless shivering nights were made dim by exhaustion’s merciful drug. Surely no war was fought under worse conditions than...
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As a direct descendant of Duncan and Nora McColl of Delegate, Charlie Lynn was invited to participate in a Wudiki ceremony in Darwin. This came about because in the early 1930s Constable Albert McColl was speared by an Aboriginal man of the Wirrapanda and Yolngu people called Dh’a’kiyarr.
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