Charlie, Author at Adventure Kokoda Blog

Kokoda Guides: What teenage girls really think

Posted by Charlie | Jan 23, 2016 | OUR TREKKERS, OUR TREKS | 1

Two attention seeking wannabees recently set out to trek across the Kokoda Trail in the wet season...

Reported Attack and Rape by Cannibals on the Kokoda Trail – Really!

Posted by Charlie | Jan 21, 2016 | KOKODA INITIATIVE, KOKODA TRACK AUTHORITY, OUR VIEWPOINT | 111

Matthew Iovane, of Shoreditch, East London, met restaurant hostess Michelle Clemens last year...

My 1991 Kokoda Reconnaissance

Posted by Charlie | Jan 14, 2016 | ADVENTURE KOKODA | 0

I was excited at the prospect of bearing witness to the stories I had read and heard from my father who served as an infantryman in New Guinea and about Kokoda. Ever since I was a boy the memory of thousands of our veterans marching behind battle honours emblazoned with names such as Kokoda, Deniki, Isurava, Templeton’s Crossing and Eora Creek was etched in my mind.

I was excited at the prospect of exploring the Kokoda Trail bur disappointed to learn there was such little information about the conditions of the Trail itslef – no reliable maps no information on the Trail itself.

CHAPTER 5: Parliamentary Speeches Re the Kokoda Trail by the Hon Charlie Lynn MLC: 1998-2015

Posted by Charlie | Oct 26, 2015 | ADVENTURE KOKODA, OUR VIEWPOINT | 0

During my time in the New South Wales Parliament as a Member of the Legislative Council established the first ever Australia-Papua New Guinea Friendship Group and hosted numerous official functions for the PNG Consul-General, Mr Sumasy Singin. I also facilitated a meeting between the Prime Minister, Sir Michael Somare MP and the NSW Premier, The Hon Bob Carr MP. I used the platform to raise issues of importance in regard to the need to protect and honour our shared wartime heritage on the Kokoda Trail.