Australia’s preference for the politically correct term ‘Kokoda Track’ in preference to PNGs official name ‘Kokoda Trail’ is a patronising breach of international protocol towards – our closest neighbour, former mandated territory, fellow Commonwealth member and wartime ally.
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‘Olgeta,
‘We met 31 years ago when you welcomed me into your villages on my first trek with Alex Rama in 1991. At the time you told me that few people trekked across the Trail – less than 100 each year – and you only made a few kina selling your vegetables at markets. . . .
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The Australian KTOA has fought a tenacious campaign to deny their PNG guides and porters their workers’ rights – as a result the poor buggers are set to be shamelessly exploited for another year i.e. overloaded, underpaid and poorly equipped!
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‘I cannot say enough kind words about them. Throughout the entire trek I felt supported and...
Read MoreAir Niugini’s Paradise magazine describes a visit to Ower’s Corner, where ‘the road becomes a footpath that connects the start of the Kokoda Trail . . . just an hour and a half from downtown Port Moresby’.Visitors who make the...
Read MorePresentation by Charlie Lynn at the ‘Future Cities Conference’ hosted by the PNG Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in Brisbane on the 75th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign
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Trekking Kokoda will never be the same without the presence of distinguished elder, Faole Bokoi,...
Read MoreWe were saddened to learn today (30 December 2013) of Sergeant Ben Moide’s passing in Port Moresby. However we will be eternally grateful that Ben’s heroic story has been captured by Mr Lahui Ako in his book ‘Nameless Warriors’...
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Kokoda was represented at the highest level recently when the Governor or Oro Province, Gary Juffa...
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Seventy years after the war in the Pacific the Kokoda Trail has become a gateway for a wartime...
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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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On Anzac Day 2009 The Hon Scott Morrison (now Prime Minister) and his Labor colleague, the Hon...
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