Charlie, Author at Adventure Kokoda Blog

Adventure Kokoda License Restored by PNG National Court

Posted by Charlie | Jan 9, 2024 | ADVENTURE KOKODA, OUR VIEWPOINT | 3

Charlie Lynn has welcomed the PNG National Court order to restore Adventure Kokoda’s tour operator’s license.

In her judgement handed down on 14 December 2023, Justice Susan Purdon-Sully found that Minister Simon Kilepa’s decision to cancel our license was unlawful.

Her Honour also declared the Kokoda Initiative Committee (KIC) meeting convened on 21 April 2023 was not free from bias and conflicts of interest given the presence of the Strategic Management Advisor for the DFAT Kokoda Initiative and Secretary to the KIC, Mr. Mark Nizette MBE, and Oro Governor Gary Juffa MP.

CHAPTER 38: Kokoda Trail Tourism – The Way Forward

Posted by Charlie | Jan 8, 2024 | ADVENTURE KOKODA, KOKODA INITIATIVE, KOKODA TRACK AUTHORITY, OUR VIEWPOINT | 0

Since the Australian Government assumed responsibility for the management of the Kokoda Trail under a Joint agreement with PNG in 2008 trekker numbers have fallen by 46 percent which has resulted in a cumulative loss of some $20 million in foregone wages, campsite fees and local purchases for villages communities. And these are the people we have spent millions trying to help!

PNG National Court Judgement: Adventure Kokoda Vs Minister for Environment Conservation & Climate Change, and the Kokoda Track Authority

Posted by Charlie | Jan 2, 2024 | ADVENTURE KOKODA, KOKODA INITIATIVE, KOKODA TRACK AUTHORITY | 1

PNG National Court Judgement re Adventure Kokoda Tour Operator’s License

CHAPTER 37: Unlawful Cancellation of Adventure Kokoda Licence

Posted by Charlie | Dec 27, 2023 | ADVENTURE KOKODA, OUR VIEWPOINT | 0

The cancellation of our Adventure Kokoda tour operators’ licence was found to be unlawful by the Justice Sally Purdon-Sully in the PNG National Court on 14 December 2023,

The hearing lifted the scab off a web of insidious political agendas, the use of aid-for-influence, nepotism, incompetence, corruption and collusion within the DFAT funded Kokoda Initiative network which includes the PNG Conservation Environment Promotion Authority (CEPA), the Kokoda Track Authority (KTA) and the Australian Kokoda Tour Operators Association (KTOA).