The future of the Kokoda Trail hangs in the balance
John Ferguson, Associate Editor of the Australian newspaper, recently trekked across the Kokoda...
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Kokoda News and Magazine Articles
The 50th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign provided an opportunity for it to emerge from the shadow of Gallipoli. Our vision was tempered by the volatile law and order situation in Port Moresby at the time; a lack of information on the nature of the trail; and the logistics required; and a lack of corporate and civic awareness in Australia.
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Stars Rise and Fall on Kokoda
WHAT do you get when you combine the historic Kokoda Track with a bunch of celebrities? The answer, judging from Nine’s A Current Affair, is a disaster, of significant proportions, with the odd triumph thrown in.
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Walking Among Ghosts
“If you threw Chuck Norris and Indiana Jones into a blender and added a few Anzac badges...
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Sydney Swans Conquer Kokoda
In August 1942 a battalion of 450 young ANZACS dug in around a remote jungle village high up in...
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Is this the World’s meanest tour guide?
Charlie Lynn’s holiday package includes a good measure of fear, exhaustion, injury and shock, which may be why Australia’s largest companies think he’s great. Marc Llewellyn reports:
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A Walk on the Wild Side – Anzac 1992
Leeches. Malaria. Blisters. Tinea. Treacherous creek crossings on narrow logs in the dark …...
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Charlie Lynn – Blinded by Kokoda!
Peter Fitzsimons, Author of ‘Kokoda’ – writing for the Sydney Eye Hospital...
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Trekking to Hell and Back
OVERCOME by emotion Dr John de Courcy halts mid-sentence. Lying almost flat, his head propped against the thatched wall of a smoke-filled hut in the remote ranges of Papua New Guinea, he tries to describe those who have influenced his life. After a short pause, he continues without inhibition and his audience listens with empathy. It’s the kind of exchange that only a collective experience – bordering on near hell – is likely to deliver.
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CHAPTER 3: ‘A Hard Slog to Kokoda’
“WE ARE indeed a strange collection of life’s assorted gathered here so far from home, checking our packs, checking out each other. Among us are the media’s most unfit, a professional fisherman, a surgeon-cum-ardent bushwalker, a marathon runner and a 70-year-old war veteran. We are on a pilgrimage for which, it turns out, we are largely unprepared”.
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