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Whether they found it on the tribal battlefields of Papua New Guinea or among satraps in Sydney council politics, Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly made films that brimmed with life. Australia's most acclaimed documentary makers for two decades, they shared a prodigious partnership at work - Anderson once said they worked so well together because "he thinks I'm better than him at what we do, and I think he's better than me" - and two daughters at home. There seemed much more to come, until Anderson died of cancer in 2002, at just 51. After that, "I didn...
...Halsey said after the war, "and Guadalcanal saved the Pacific." Over a two-year period after the outbreak of hostilities in Europe in September 1939, Royal Australian Navy Commander Eric Feldt established a network of 100 Coastwatcher stations in a 4,000-km arc from the western border of Papua New Guinea to Vila in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu...
...more than a thousand years their unblinking eyes have watched over the tribes that live along Papua New Guinea's vast rivers. Hacked from the necks of enemies or retrieved from the graves of ancestors, the skulls were a central part of tribal culture. No youth could call himself a man until he had defeated an enemy warrior in battle, beheaded the corpse with a cassowary-bone dagger, and displayed the head on his clan's wooden slit drum. And few family houses were complete without the skull of an ancestor, decorated with clay features, shell eyes and real hair...
...river regions, ethnic art dealers armed with dollars and euros more deadly to native culture than any dagger. "These items are going to private homes," says p.n.g. National Museum director Soroi Eoe, the man responsible for thwarting the theft of cultural artifacts. "They are being lost not just to Papua New Guinea, but to the world. Under the law, these human remains are a prohibited export...
...called "tensions" (which lasted from 1998 to 2003) were mostly confined to Guadalcanal, 400 km away, the Western province experienced food and supply shortages, and the trickle of funding for basic services such as education and medical care ceased. People who could afford it imported men from the neighboring Papua New Guinea island province of Bougainville as security guards. But the practice got out of control, and the hired hands quickly became henchmen and bullies; some are now wanted for murder. Once ramsi arrived, the Bougainvilleans returned home...