Response to Mid-Term Review of the Kokoda Initiative 2nd Joint Understanding
Download Kokoda Initiative Second Joint Understanding – Mid Term Review 30 June 2014 on this...
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Read More‘There is no greater bond of mateship, or commitment to one another, than that developed between soldiers in the crucible of war. ‘Shared adversity, extreme conditions, privation, reliance on each other and...
Read MorePapua New Guinea is the custodian of our Australian Pacific War history. A place where our wartime relics have rusted in peace in remote jungle clad mountains for the past 70 years. The names of hitherto unknown...
Read MoreThe Hon. CHARLIE LYNN (Parliamentary Secretary) [10.27 a.m.]: Mr President, 1. I move that this...
Read MoreSubmission to the Australian Senate by The Hon Charlie Lynn MLC, 10 March 2006 Preamble I first...
Read MoreOVERCOME 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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