The debate over whether Kokoda is a ‘Track’ or a ‘Trail’ has been the subject of much debate since Prime Minister Paul Keating fell to his knees and kissed the ground in 1992. The question remains as to who owns the naming rights for the place?
Read MorePublic interest in the Kokoda campaign over the past decade has been accompanied by the emergence of pop historians and wannabees whose new-found ‘passion’ for our veterans seems to coincide with the opportunity to...
Read MoreIn September 2012, the Australian War Memorial convened a major international conference to mark the 70th anniversary of the Kokoda and Papuan campaigns in 1942. Kokoda now dominates Australia’s popular memory of the Second...
Read MoreAn Australian Battles Nomenclature Committee was established in 1947 to define the battles in the Pacific. Their final report in 1958 adopted ‘Kokoda Trail’ as the official Commonwealth battle honour which was...
Read MoreA motion to have the RSL lobby the Australian Government to have the Kokoda Trail renamed as ‘The Kokoda Track’ was defeated at the RSL National Congress held in Dubbo on 14-15 September 2010 (National Congress Resolution 6.1.2...
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