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Dedicated to Fresh Graduates JULIUS JETHRO I’m a new Graduate I’m a Job Hunter I know about Book and Biro only Taking lectures Day in Day out I’m a Fresh Graduate I stare only on note books To pass tests and exams I burn midnight candles to graduate I’m a Fresh Graduate I don’t haveContinue reading “A new poem muses on graduation day”

By   Wilson Thompson Orlegge, ML Sinake Giregire CSM, KBE, CBE, MBE (Jubilee and Independence medals) The life and contribution of the late Sir Sinake Giregire has been documented in many books, articles and newspapers. Even the National Library and National Archives of Australia have a separate file of many official documents and policies he wasContinue reading “The Life and Contribution of Sinake Giregire to PNG, circa 1937 – 4 January 2012”

DIANNE-MANDUI-MIRIO| My Land, My Country LAE – I was working at Ngasuapum village along the Lae Nadzab highway in the Huon Gulf electorate that I came across the two hardworking women. An old woman with grey hair was talking with another woman in her late fifties. Both caught my attention so, after my interviews were done,Continue reading “PNG’s birthers: unrecognised & unresourced”

By MICHAEL DOM – posted on PNG Attitude blog LAE – Power, power, power. Yeah, sure. In Papua New Guinea subsistence agriculture is a basic mode of living, resources are communally shared and political power is gained and maintained by the assurance of mutual benefit for all. It can be challenging to understand that theContinue reading “Two questions long struggled with”

By DUNCAN GABI| Auna Melo Blog WEWAK – Many people living along the Sepik River have raised concerns about the serious destruction of the river. The river and the people who rely on it are affected by the movement of tug boats and pontoons along the river but their calls are falling on deaf ears. TheContinue reading “Destruction on the Sepik River”

A critique of the World Environment Day Poetry MICHAEL DOM “Congratulations and well done! Writing skills are sharpened by practice. Competition allows you to sharpen your work by reading other poets work as well – they may provide you [with] a new or different way of expressing your poetry”. – Ples Singsing email to entrantsContinue reading “Original local idiom – what’s not said taim yu tromoi tokpisin”

MICHAEL DOM Yu sanap long dua Bilong Anutu na beten Wat po yu less long knok-knok Ating em imas Bikpela man tumas Long yu paitim dua bilong em Na lukim Hamaspela lain Ol tu i wet istap Em ia Marape gavman Na long hapsait Ol pastol bilong sios Mi ting olsem Ol i wanwok bilongContinue reading “TOK-SINGSING: Sanap longlong (Standing stupidly)”