"Hi Peter
Just came across your web site this morning.
This very day Khalif Agaiby and myself and wives will be having a BBQ and we will drink to the old days.
If you have a copy of Tony Hope's book "The Hope Factor" you can see our smiling faces inside the book.
We were both geologists then and in 1968 I was President of the Pan Flat Recreation Committee.
Cheers
Tony Osman"
That was in September 1983, forty-seven years after Oskar Speck, a mad German, had paddled a kayak all the way from Germany into Torres Strait, landing on Saibai Island on 20 September 1939 - see here.
Dateline uncovers claims that the Papua New Guinea government acted under instruction from mining giant Rio Tinto, when it killed thousands opposing Bougainville mine.
