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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Making History Module Essay by Susan Stephen
In this essay I will try to uncover an alternative reading to the colonial administration’s reading about Patrol Officer W.J. Brand’s report,[1]—that the carriers ‘lacked stamina’—and suggest four reasons why some carriers wanted to leave the patrol on the third day. Considerations include diet, malarial infection, entering diverse cultural areas and topography. I conclude that…
Making History Module Essay by Brianna Pick
In June and July of 1951, Patrol Officer (Kiap)[1] S.S. Smith undertook a patrol to the Southern Highlands; specifically, the Mendi Valley. He was accompanied by two Europeans, 10 Indigenous police officers and an average of 40 Indigenous carriers (including translators).[2] The patrol lasted 15 days, with an un-reported rest in between of 5 days….
Making History Module Essay by Tara Parker
Tara Parker Assignment 2 – Patrol Report Tari – Volume 7- Southern Highlands 1955-1956 Summary Tari 7 1955-1956 Patrol Report is a detailed report conducted by patrol officer James (Jim) Patrick Sinclair. The area visited was in the Southern Highlands, specifically the Hundia-Naggia[?] country south-west to the Karenda basin, the Lavani valley, Peta and Luna…