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Deja Vu PNG – The ‘Bulolo Phenomenon’ all over again?

• September 4, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in PNG Business, PNG Economy, PNG Mining
Tags: Adcance Cairns, Andrew Fraser, Asia Pacific, Australia, Bligh, Brisbane, Bulolo, Cairns, Cairns Chamber of Commerce, Cairns Economic Future Plan, China, Emerging Markets, Exploitation, Far North Queensland, FNQ, Gold, Jeremy Blockey, Land of the Unexpected, LNG Project, North Queensland, Papua New Guinea, Pioneers, PNG, PNG LNG, Port Moresby, Qianzai, Queensland, Queensland Government, Special Trade Representative to Papua New Guinea, Strategy, Sydney, The Cairns Prospectus, TNQ, Tropical North Queensland, Wall Street, Wau

TOP SECRET: Cairns to Port Moresby Railway

• November 15, 2008 • 4 Comments

Posted in PNG Transportation
Tags: 100 mile tunnel, Australia, Banks Island, Bob McKillop, Cairns, Channel Tunnel, David Bromage, End of the line, History, History of railways, History of trains, Holyhead, Howth, Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Japan, London, Melbourne, Mike Pearson, Mountains, North Wales, Papua New Guinea, Peter Berrett, Peter Ware, PNG, PNG Aid, Prince of Wales Island, Queensland, Rail Page Australia, Railways, Republic of Ireland, Terrain, Top Secret, Trains, Tunnel, West Irian

Forgotten Melanesians: The South-Sea Islanders of Queenslands’ Plantations

• October 22, 2008 • 16 Comments

Posted in PNG History
Tags: Australian South Sea Islanders, Blackbirding, Kanakas, Melanesia, Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901, Papua New Guinea, PNG, Queensland, Sir Nathaniel Waena, South Sea Islanders, Sugar Plantations, White Australia Policy