Alumni For Banner Photo Shoot
Photo shoot for the Australia Awards website where the Alumni banner photos will be used on newly procured Australia Awards banners.
2018 Annual Dinner
The PNGAAA Annual Dinner was Saturday, 13 October 2018 at the Holiday Inn Port Moresby. The dinner supports our efforts to deliver high-quality professional development programs for our members and the operations of our eight provincial chapters
The theme was Enhancing Alumni Impact through Digital Innovation. Designed to be inclusive of rural Papua New Guinea this year’s keynote speaker was Tania Major. She is an advocate for Aboriginal people and was named the 2007 Young Australian of the Year in recognition of her work. Tina is a vibrant and passionate leader and an internationally renowned speaker. Her insights into the world of remote Aboriginal Australians resonates with the rural communities of Papua New Guinea.
The dinner was also a chance to meet the 2019 Australia Awards Scholarship recipients along with prominent guests from the governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea in congratulating the next generation of leaders.
Ethical Leadership
Financial Literacy Training for the Southern Region
On Thursday and Friday, thirty Papua New Guinea Australia alumni (PNGAAA) and five Australia Awards Maritime Scholarships awardees participated in financial education training facilitated by Centre for Excellence in Financial Inclusion (CEFI) in Port Moresby. This was part of an agreement reached between the organisations to deliver a series of financial education workshops for PNGAAA members across Papua New Guinea. (more…)
Photos of 1970s PNG on Display in Berlin
We had an amazing launch of the European Month of Photography with a Press Conference at the Helmut Newton Foundation building yesterday. Newton has been a prolific portrait photographer who has worked around the world. (more…)
Inspiring Female Entrepreneurs
When Tina Mark Kakini returned home to Alotau after earning a Certificate IV in Entrepreneurship at Australia’s Sunshine Coast University, (more…)
Professional Development Workshops at The Precinct
There are a two training opportunities through the Pacific Leadership and Governance Precinct to support strong PNG Government public servants (Grade 14 and above). I would appreciate if you could kindly share these opportunities with your counterparts in Government Departments and Agencies. (more…)
Working to End to Family Violence
Jean Jano, Program Manager
Eastern Highlands Family Voice
My name is Jean Jen Jano, and I am from Fayantina LLG in the Eastern Highlands Province. (more…)
2018 PNGAAA Annual Dinner
The PNGAAA Annual Dinner is Saturday, 13 October 2018 at the Holiday Inn Port Moresby. The dinner supports our efforts to deliver high-quality professional development programs for our members and the operations of our eight provincial chapters. (more…)
Preserving PNG Culture with Social Media
Elizabeth Tandoa is an expressive arts teacher at Gerehu Secondary School who is using all of her talents to preserve and promote Papua New Guinean culture. A professional multimedia artist, Tandoa earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Queensland University of Technology through the Australia Awards Scholarship Program. (more…)
