Challenges and opportunities for professional women in Papua New Guinea – two...
Much of the literature on women and development draws on impressively large numbers representing the collective story of half of the world’s population. There is the statistic, often cited, that women...
View ArticleThe amazing ladies of Hela
One of the great privileges of my job with the Oil Search Foundation (OSF) is to visit remote parts of Papua New Guinea and meet the incredible people who live and work there. I recently had the...
View ArticleBel Isi PNG: a world first
Can family and sexual violence (FSV) be more than the humanitarian concern that we know it to be? The answer is yes. In Papua New Guinea (PNG) FSV has been quantified as a significant cost to business....
View ArticleAustralian aid to PNG
It takes 15 minutes in a tinny to cross from Australia to Papua New Guinea. Boigu Island in the Torres Strait is less than six kilometres from PNG—‘within a bow shot’, a colonial administrator once...
View ArticleDomestic violence in PNG and the rise of civil society
On my first posting to Papua New Guinea (PNG) working for the Australian Government’s aid program, I visited Daru Hospital in Western Province. In an isolated corner of the maternity ward sat a woman...
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