14 September 2015

My Valley is Changing

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  The building of the giant open-cut copper mine on the island of Bougainville brought profound change to local landowners. Despite royalti...

The real Mr Pip

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  Click here to read Harry Baxter's comments. Click here for a preview of the movie "Mr Pip".  
31 August 2015

Remember the chain letters MONEY TREE and MONEY MACHINE ?

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They were a variant of those letters encouraging people to forward one dollar in cash to a list of people provided in the text, and to add t...
29 August 2015

Johannes van der Linden sent these photos:

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I was there from 1970 and even was seconded to Bechtel working in the Cinema centre in Melbourne. My Department employed 120 people, the a...
13 August 2015

Mark Frankling emailed from France:

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Mark L Frankling in Paris, France, but who now lives with his family in Burgundy. As he writes, "The above photo was taken in Paris (1...
26 July 2015

John Clark emailed:

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I was working in Bougainville in 79. My wife and I were living in Arawa with our 2 year old son (Michael). I was programming on the BCL min...
17 July 2015

Sonya Organ emailed with a question: "I am hoping someone will recognise the men in the photo and help me solve the mystery of the origins of the photo."

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  Hi Peter, I found this photo amongst my father's belongings. My father was a miner in Broken Hill but he had written on the back of...
10 July 2015

Arovo Island today

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Arovo Island is just off the coast of Kieta. It was a famous resort before the Bougainville crisis. Now an old jetty and seawalls are all ...
1 July 2015

Brian Mc Nicholas emailed from the Gold Coast:

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  Don't know where to start as it was so long ago. I am living on the Gold Coast Qld and have been looking for my old mate from Bougain...
21 May 2015

This year's Reunion in Brisbane

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