Category: OUR VIEWPOINT

Cape York Peninsula & Kokoda Trail under threat from Canberra’s Environment Zealots! Score 0%

Cape York Peninsula & Kokoda Trail under threat from Canberra’s Environment Zealots!

by | Jan 4, 2025 | | 2

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 Score 0%

KOKODA ANTI-TOURISM AUTHORITY

by | Dec 21, 2024 | | 4

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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Index: Major Charlie Lynn’s Adventure Kokoda Blogs Score 0%

Index: Major Charlie Lynn’s Adventure Kokoda Blogs

by | Dec 5, 2024 | | 0

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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Proposed resolution to the Illegal blockade on the Kokoda Trail Score 0%

Proposed resolution to the Illegal blockade on the Kokoda Trail

by | Oct 7, 2024 | | 0

Responsibility for the current situation rests squarely with Canberra funded Kokoda Initiative officials who have used the term ‘Kokoda’ to give relevance to an environmental agenda which has resulted in a decline of 46% in Kokoda toirism numbers since they took control of the Kokoda Trail under a Joint Understanding with PNG in 2009 and reaffirmed in 2015.

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From our Adventure Kokoda Files Circa 2009 Score 0%

From our Adventure Kokoda Files Circa 2009

by | Sep 26, 2024 | | 0

The following blogs were written 15 years ago soon after Australian officials assumed management control of the Kokoda Trail on eye-watering 6-figure salaries loaded with generous allowances and tax deductions. Back then Kokoda tour operators held high expectations …

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