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16 March 2021

Pity the mine didn't last that long!

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A Canadian reader, who toughed it out on Bougainville during the early construction days, on TUE 16 emailed this photo of a "SEIKO...
15 March 2021

10,000 blokes, 10 single women

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There was none of that "sophisticated, high living" in Camp 1 or Camp 3 at Panguna, or in Camp 6 down the coast, or in any othe...
9 March 2021

Flashback

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    P erhaps it is the result of having read Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke and Joseph Conrad at an impressionable age, but th...
20 February 2021

Another top story

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  I t's probably too much of a stretch to suggest that they waited with the Bougainville Copper Project until the ring-tab beer c...
31 January 2021

Bob Jackson did a good job ...

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Bob Jackson did a tremendous job in joining up a lot of clippings into a "documentary" of his - of our - "Golden Years...
30 December 2020

Walk into Paradise

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  I spent the last couple of days of the old year in a contemplative mood watching an old movie, WALK INTO PARAD...
24 December 2020

Of Christmasses past

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Christmas 1970 inside my donga in Camp 6 on Loloho Beach   It's that time of year again! This photo is from 1970 when photograp...

Gutpela Nait, Holi Nait

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    “Gutpela Nait, Holi Nait” i wanpela song bilong Krismas. Em i kam long maunten bilong Ostria (Austria) klostu long Jemeni (Germany)....
15 November 2020

"Cannibal Tours" (1988) Documentary by Dennis O'Rourke

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  "Cannibal Tours" is a 1988 quasi-documentary film by the late Australian director and cinematographer Dennis O'Rou...
14 November 2020

These pages are all about memories, so it's perhaps appropriate to have some idle thoughts on memory

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Why not read along as you listen? Click here   O h, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago!" has been the cry ever...
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