The Battle for Kokoda
Editor’s note: After publishing the Charlie Lynn article Losing Kokoda on May 14, we received a...
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Category: CHARLIE’S SPEECHES
Losing Kokoda
The ‘blackbirding curse’ is as damaging to Papua New Guinea’s adventure tourism industry as the...
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Australia Day Tribute to a Vietnam Mate
Today I was honoured to be guest speaker at the Kenthurst Australia Day ceremony. I decided not to...
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RIP: Ovoru Indiki – Wartime Carrier, Naduri Village
Kokoda trekkers who had the honour of meeting Ovoru Indiki in Naduri village will be saddened to...
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KOKODA: Beyond the Legend
In September 2012, the Australian War Memorial convened a major international conference to mark...
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Potential & Benefits of Wartime tourism in Papua New Guinea
Seventy years after the war in the Pacific the Kokoda Trail has become a gateway for a wartime...
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Tribute to Sergeant Brett Wood MG DSM by The Hon Charlie Lynn MLC
The Hon. CHARLIE LYNN (Parliamentary Secretary) [10.27 a.m.]: Mr President, 1. I move that this...
Read MoreACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SACRIFICE MADE BY AUSTRALIAN SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN
Motion 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 MoreKokoda – a neglected jungle shrine
‘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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Reconciliation between the McColl’s and the Wirrapanda & Yolngu People
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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