16 May 2025

A message from the webmaster:

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  It is perhaps not surprising that this blog and the Bougainville website are dying a slow death. However, as the numbers of ex-Bougai...
14 May 2025

Bob Jackson's Bougainville website

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  Click here   A former "inmate" from my Bougainville days, Bob Jackson, emailed, "I'm wondering if you could...
1 April 2025

An Urgent Message from Rene Pogel, BCL's Employee Relations Manager:

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    AFTER many years of closure, the Bougainville Copper Mine is about to open again! If you are interested i...
9 December 2024

A Christmas Eve in the Far South Seas

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  Listen to the story here   I in the islands, by some unspoken agreement, we never talked about Christmases or birthdays. A...
7 August 2024

A trip back in time for fifty cents

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  6th Edition, February 1998   M ost people buy their Lonely Planet Guide to plan a trip; I b...
5 August 2024

The Highlands Trilogy

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    W hen Columbus and Cortez ventured into the New World there was no camera to record the drama ...
9 October 2023

We were all citizens of the world

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    W hy is it that whenever I hear Rick declare his nationality as "I'm a drunkard", I immediately think back to my c...
5 October 2023

Bougainville Before the Conflict

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  A very interesting read - click here .  
4 October 2023

Sean Dorney's book "Papua New Guinea: People, Politics and History Since 1975"

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  S ean Dorney has been reporting on the Pacific (with a particular focus on Papua New Guinea) for over four decades. His book ...
20 September 2023

Rex Brooks emailed from Townsville:

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  Hello Peter, I was randomly browsing and came across your blog. I was amused by the photo of you in the article "The die w...