Coming to Kokoda: Vital ties must endure as China circles
Political leaders and the young have been urged to embrace the history and better understand the...
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Category: NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
A new battle for control of sacred Australian battlefield erupts, 81 years later
A new battle erupts for control of the Kokoda Track | The Australian Eighty-one years after the Battle of Kokoda, a new fight has erupted on one of Australia’s most sacred battlegrounds. Rival groups are…
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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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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:
Read MoreCHARLIE LYNN-legend of the Kokoda Trail who is keeping the memory of the battle alive
Described as the by-product of throwing Chuck Norris and Indiana Jones into a blender, this former Australian Army Major has been trekking across the infamous Kokoda trail for more than 28 years.
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Kokoda Trail still a testing ground
Despite the deaths Australians are drawn to take the challenge, writes Erik Jensen from the...
Read MoreConsultants Killing Kokoda
Kokoda has claimed more Australian lives this year than Afghanistan!During the last week two trekkers died on the Kokoda Trail, a couple more were evacuated by helicopter and fourteen went down with food poisoning. ...
Read MoreEXCRUCIATING, gruelling, torturous, gut-wrenching
by Sally McMillan – The Sunday Telegraph Sally McMillan from the Sunday Telegraph reports ‘Trekking the Kokoda Trail is all of the above – and more’.The cloying jungle seeps into you, radiating waves of...
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The Kokoda Kids
Torrential Rain, mud slides and a 10-day trek – unorthodox methods for building self-esteem, but it worked for a group of troubled teenagers. Judy Adamson reports:
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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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