65,000 reasons to reform Kokoda Pilgrimage Tourism Management
65,000 Australians attracted by the military heritage of the Kokoda Trail have invested around...
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Category: OUR VIEWPOINT
Time for PNG to Honour ‘Kokoda Day’
After trekking across the Kokoda Trail for 15 years and realising the impossibility of the sacrifice, endurance, and compassion PNGs wartime carriers exhibited in saving so many sick and wounded diggers across the Kokoda Trail, I proposed that a special day be dedicated to their selfless legacy.
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Time for PNG to wake up to Canberra’s woke agenda!
Published in The Spectator Magazine Australia: 12 August 2025 The term ‘Kokoda’ has been hijacked...
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Call for PNG to take back Kokoda
Time for PNG to reclaim ownership of the Kokoda Trail
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Making Kokoda Tourism Work
Preamble The failure to properly manage our shared wartime heritage across the Kokoda Trail over...
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‘My Kokoda Journey’ 1991-2024 – Charlie Lynn
Over the past 32 years I have led 101 expeditions across the Kokoda Trail. During this time I have also travelled to Canberra to brief eight of the 11 Ministers for Veterans Affairs and three of the Ministers for International Aid and the Pacific, on the need to protect our shared military heritage across the Kokoda Trail.
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A Blueprint for Kokoda Pilgrimage Tourism
The 138 km Kokoda Trail, a 10 metre-wide corridor on either side of the tracks over which the...
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Kokoda’s Titanic Destiny
Link: Papua New Guinea Smartraveller Advice as at 29 May 2025 The current Australian Smartraveller...
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Papua New Guinea – A Place of Pilgrimage
The Kokoda Trail ‘Just a day’s travel from Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane and you can be on the...
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Pilgrimage Tourism Model for the Kokoda Trail
The 2025 National Tourism Conference planned for the Hilton Hotel in Port Moresby on 9-10 April...
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WTF has Kokoda got to do with neocolonialism?
As PNG approaches its 50th year of Independence it is timely to look at the transition from...
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Mark Nizette – Kokoda Trail Ringmaster?
Julius Wargirai was hired as ‘Acting CEO’ of the PNG Kokoda Track Authority (KTA) in a neo-colonial process orchestrated by DFAT PNG – it was a process that would not escape the attention of watchdog agencies in Australia! His engagement as ‘interim CEO’ prevented more qualified, but independently minded executives, from being engaged to manage the Kokoda Trail for PNGs economic benefit.
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