Australia’s former Governor-General, Major General Michael Jeffery, says that, “without the Patrol Officers performing their policing, legal, agricultural, governance and administrative functions, PNG would simply not have been ready for nationhood in 1975”
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ASOPA graduate, ex chalkie, medical doctor and veterinarian, Dr Howard Ralph, receives the Sunday Telegraph nomination for a Pride of Australia medal. He has spent the last 30 years working with injured Australian native wildlife
Quotes“[I am] totally disappointed and sickened by their work attitudes and inefficiency. Whose interests are the public servants serving? Are they serving the interest of the public, or their own?” - Governor-General Sir Paulias Matane
"We demonstrated the power of the .303 rifle by lining up five shields, making a dum-dum out of a bullet, and showing how it would come out a great gap on the other side. To these people [the rifles] were just sticks and had no meaning until we demonstrated their power" - veteran PNG politician and ex-kiap Sir Barry Holloway, recalling his first trip into an uncontrolled area
“I have been letting readers know for a month now that their supply of a monthly medication hitherto known as The Mail is about to dry up. Although there has been a proviso: should you advise me that you are alive, compos mentis and capable of absorbing information, said supply will continue” – Keith Jackson, trying to determine whether a newsletter was still required in the Age of Blog [the response was overwhelming and PNG Attitude was born]
“Phil Fitzpatrick’s novel, Bamahuta – Leaving Papua, is a beautiful book. Fitzpatrick is not only a powerful storyteller with a keen eye for the descriptive detail that makes you feel you're there, he writes with a beguiling sense of humour and the ability to draw characters who are real (sometimes because they are real) and who we can sympathise with, even when their personalities are less than appealing” – Keith Jackson
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