‘Kokoda Initiative’ – Kokoda Oxymoron!
If ever there was an oxymoron in PNG it is the DFAT-funded ‘Kokoda Initiative’ who seem intent on...
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Category: KOKODA INITIATIVE
KOKODA TRAIL MANAGEMENT ISSUES
The Covid-19 pause provides PNG a timely opportunity to recalibrate their management of the Kokoda Trail and work towards developing it as a World class destination based on our shared wartime heritage.
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MARKETING KOKODA – Wartime Tourism
“Kokoda is almost the complete adventure experience for Australian baby-boomers and young adventurers. It requires physical stamina and mental tenacity. The wartime history evokes strong emotions. The unconditional care and support of local PNG guides and villagers is humbling. The environment is rugged, remote and pristine.”
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KOKODA TRAIL CAMPSITES: A Vision for Post Covid-19!
Covid-19 offers the opportunity for Australian and PNG authorities to reevaluate the intrinsic value of our shared wartime heritage across the Kokoda Trail for future generations.
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Kokoda Trail World Heritage: Fact or Fallacy?
The review of the Kokoda Trail for a World Heritage listing by the late Mr Peter Hitchcock, Dr Jennifer Gabriel and Dr Matthew Leavesley has exposed the myth of its relevance to our shared wartime heritage associated with the Kokoda campaign.
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The DFAT Kokoda Initiative: Reporting from a parallel universe to the Kokoda Trail!
2019 Annual Review Report Papua New Guinea – Australia Governance Partnership ‘Quality and Technical Assurance Group – Final Report – September 2019 – Kokoda Initiative Partnership (KIP)’
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KTA Strategic Plan: 2012-2015. FAIL
A KTA Strategic Plan: 2012-2015 was developed by Australian environmental officials in the isolated seclusion of their Kokoda Track Authority (KTA) offices in Port Moresby in 2011.
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2019 Kokoda Initiative Report
This section refers to the 2019 DFAT funded Kokoda Initiative Partnership report which is part of the annual report for the Papua New Guinea-Australia Governance Partnership.
Read MoreKokoda Trail: 75th Anniversary Funding Proposals
DVA Funds allocated for commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the end of the War in the Pacific should be restricted to honouring and interpreting the sacrifice of our troops in Papua and New Guinea from 1942-45. As a key...
Read MoreAdventure Kokoda Funding Proposal for a Kokoda Trail Master Heritage Plan
Michael Pender, an accredited Military Heritage Architect from HPA Projects was commissioned by Network Kokoda to develop a Master Plan for the Kokoda Trail for the 70th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign in 2012. It was not...
Read MoreChronology of Facts for the Kokoda Trekking Industry
Prime Minister Keating kissing the ground on the Kokoda Plateau – April 1992 Interest in the Kokoda Trail lay dormant for 50 years until Paul Keating became the first Australian Prime Minister to visit the area in 1992. It...
Read MoreApology to Kokoda Trail Villagers
“In recent years the academics have discovered New Guinea. Grave, plump, portentous, they swarm north in their hundreds each winter, generally finishing somewhere near Goroka in the Eastern Highlands where at times they...
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