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Taim Bilong Masta

The Australian Involvement with Papua New Guinea

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Taim Bilong Masta

By: Tim Bowden
Narrated by: Tim Bowden
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In 1979, the idea of an oral history based project on the administration of Papua New Guinea germinated at the ABC, driven by Tim Bowden and Daniel Connell. This massive undertaking involved the recording of 350 hours of tape recorded interviews with Australians and Papua New Guineans who had been involved with Australia's colonial administration which ended with self government and independence in 1975.

The result is a superb 24 program social history, so evocative of a time and place, revealed through a tapestry of voices from those who lived through it.

These are first-hand accounts of the pre-war history in the early 1900s, the masta-boi relationships, the gold rush and the exploration of the highlands. In Taim Bilong Masta, Australian men and women who spent so many years living and working in Papua New Guinea before independence in 1975 can be heard again, telling their own stories.

©1985 Tim Bowden (P)2013 Bolinda Publishing
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A range of voices and perspectives, offering an insight into one of the later colonial conquests.

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