Category: PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Should PNG reclaim ownership of their Kokoda Trail?

The recent opening of the DFAT funded ‘Kokoda Track Museum’ at the PNG National Museum and Art Gallery is a patronising insult to PNGs sovereign right to name their own geographic features.

The major influencer in the project is an American anthropologist, Dr. Andrew Connolly, who was engaged as Australia’s ‘National Military Heritage Advisor’ by the Australian High Commission via a process that could best be described as dodgy.

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The Kokoda Trail Villager

First impressions of Koiari and Orokaiva villages along the Kokoda Trail give little hint of the complex relationships that exist within. The simple life of building, gardening, cooking, nurturing, teaching and healing is underpinned by the complexities of clan relationships and the influence of missionary pastors, traditional lululais’ and sorcerers.

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