Fighting for a Voice: The Inside Story of PNG Attitude and the Crocodile Prize by Fitzpatrick, Philip

Fighting for a Voice: The Inside Story of PNG Attitude and the Crocodile Prize (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533616906)

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Fighting for a Voice: The Inside Story of PNG Attitude and the Crocodile Prize by Fitzpatrick, Philip

Fighting for a Voice: The Inside Story of PNG Attitude and the Crocodile Prize

$13.33
Fighting for a Voice: The Inside Story of PNG Attitude and the Crocodile Prize by Fitzpatrick, Philip

Fighting for a Voice: The Inside Story of PNG Attitude and the Crocodile Prize

$13.33
Format: Paperback
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For most Australians Papua New Guinea is a mysterious place somewhere north of Cape York and roughly between Bali in Indonesia and the resorts in Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia in the South Pacific. As a place it sits at the bottom of their consciousness. Papua New Guineans, on the other hand, know a lot about Australia. Many of their goods and media come from there and the big companies exploiting their resources are often Australian. There are, however, a small band of Australians who worked or served in Papua New Guinea before independence in 1975. For these people it sits permanently and warmly in their memory and consciousness. For them and for many Papua New Guineans it is an enduring mystery why the two nations, so physically close together and with a shared history, don't have a much stronger relationship. That relationship is the focus of this short history. It details the attempts by some of those Australians and Papua New Guineans to broaden and expand the relationship. It is still a work in progress but the story of PNG Attitude and the Crocodile Prize points to what is possible when the right people get together to make things happen.

Author: Philip Fitzpatrick
ISBN-10: 1533616906
ISBN-13: 9781533616906
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2016
Pages: 374
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d
By Philip Fitzpatrick
By Philip Fitzpatrick
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Philip Fitzpatrick studied Anthropology and Law at the Australian School of Pacific Administration and has degrees in Literature and Government from the University of Queensland. He is an Associate Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, a member of the Anthropological Society of South Australia. He was a field officer in Papua New Guinea between 1967 and 1973. Between 1974 and 1994 he was successively a Site Recorder, Registrar of Aboriginal Sites and Manager of the Aboriginal Heritage Branch in South Australia. Since 1994 he has worked as an independent consultant in both Australia and Papua New Guinea. To date, he has carried out over 300 heritage surveys and written numerous detailed social mapping, native title and heritage research reports. He also carries out pro bono work among indigenous communities in both Australia and Papua New Guinea. He is widely published, in both academic and popular media. He is the author of six novels. In 2010 he co-founded a national annual literature competition in Papua New Guinea. He also edits and publishes the annual Papua New Guinea Crocodile Literary Prize Anthology.

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