“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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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 post by Sandy Lawson ‘In 2006, because tourist numbers on the Kokoda Track were rising...
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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.
Read MoreINCLUSION OF PLACES IN THE LIST OF OVERSEAS PLACES OF HISTORICSIGNIFICANCE TO AUSTRALIAPublished by the Commonwealth of Australia, No. S150, Friday, 10 August 2007Cat. No. S15007, ISSN 1032-2345, Commonwealth of Australia,...
Read MoreThe influx of Australians trekking the Kokoda Trail in PNG has resulted in an increased awareness of the plight of our closest neighbour. Trekkers arriving in Port Moresby for the first time are struck by the squalor of the...
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