Navigating the Future: An Ethnography of Change in Papua New Guinea
Monica Minnegal and Peter D. Dwyer
ANU Press

It seemed a good, even worthy, idea at the time. In the ’70s, there were half a dozen resident Australian correspondents reporting from Papua New Guinea. By 2009, when I was angling for my first reporting trip to PNG, there were just two: for the ABC and for the wire service Australian Associated Press. (By 2013, the AAP bureau would also be boarded up.)