Australia’s governance over Papua and New Guinea was that of an Incongruous Empire – one whose own relations to power fluctuated drastically depending on a motley assortment of factors. Indeed Australia’s rule was often fiscal and apathetic, subjecting Indigenous Papua New Guinean citizens to sub-human treatment under problematic power imbalances fuelled by Anglocentric concepts of…
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Cultural Context SHD Pangia Vincent Rojas
Papua New Guinea’s Southern Highlands District Pangia seems to be one of the most remote areas of exploration when looking at the diary’s and patrol reports of the Kiaps during the years of 1969-1970. For one, the patrol officers always seem to note the rainy weather and the lack of proper roads to access certain…