KOKODA CAMPAIGN 1942 COURAGE • ENDURANCE • MATESHIP • SACRIFICE We aim to spread awareness of the heroic defense of Australia against imminent invasion and the spirit of our young soldiers, instilling the Kokoda values of Courage, Endurance, Mateship and Sacrifice into the community of to...
The Kokoda Campaign 1942 : myth and reality The fighting on the Kokoda track in World War II is second only to Gallipoli in the Australian national consciousness. According to the legend, Australian soldiers were vastly outnumbered by the Japanese, who suffered great losses as a r... P ...
One of the essential characteristics of modern nationhood is singularity. There is one Australia, with one story, one foundation, one destiny and one face to the world at large. However, singularity limits good history. It makes a particularly strong impact on our understanding of those episodes...
I’m onLate Night Live tonight in Australia(and online for listeners elsewhere) discussing my bookRebel Islandwith David Marr, on all sorts of issues including Australia and Taiwan’s similar experience of indigenous issues, jungle warfare on the Kokoda Track, and “semiconductor sovereignty.” Wit...
Channon Lumpoo, 27, was shot by a high-powered weapon on Mondayin the Kokoda constituency of southBougainville. Channon was a geologist with Austhai Geophysical Consultants, which is attached to a Philippines-owned company SRMO, and was involved in exploration activities at the time of his deat...
One day they were raw militia trainees, standing guard duty at the ends of the Clarence River bridge in Grafton. Within a fortnight they were Australia's front line of defence, half-trained, ill-equipped, thrown in to face the might of Japanese forces driving down the Kokoda track to conqu...
Conflict in command during the Kokoda campaign of 1942: did General Blamey deserve the blame?endurance, under extremely adverse conditions, of the Australian soldiers on the Kokoda Trailin 1942. References Page 13. 13 Hetherington, J. (1973). Blamey controversial soldier: a biographyof Fi...
The contributions of Papua New Guinean labourers in the brutal Kokoda Track campaign of 1942–3 have long been acknowledged, yet firsthand accounts are extremely rare. During fieldwork in Maisin villages of Collingwood Bay in Oro Province in 1982–3 and 1997, the author recorded 22 extended ...
Maisin Recollections of the Kokoda Campaign, 1942-3John Barker
Maisin Recollections of the Kokoda Campaign, 1942-3John Barker