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In 1980s, Dwight Walker went with Wynnum Baptist to do a short-term mission to APCM (Asia Pacific Christian Mission, later Pioneers) at Mougulu, Western Province with Tom Hoey and built a school at the Fuma. He flew on MAF from Mt Hagen to Mougulu with Roy Hoey who was later killed in a plane crash. This had an impact on him re Bible translation and Christian missionary work. Tom later finished translating the Bible into Bedamuni (Biami tribe) and Dwight saw it in around 2010 in Brisbane.
In 2018, Tom Hoey still goes up to Mougulu for work parties on hydro or radio station. In February 2018, there was an earthquake in Mougulu and the hydro was damaged. Also in April 2018 there was an earthquake in Mougulu.
In March 2021, MAF had its 75th anniversary Zoom session with Colin Buchanan MC where very interesting history of MAF was shown and catchup with pilots and missionaries in PNG online plus new base in Mareeba QLD. Monument to Roy Hoey at Mt Hagen base was shown in the video which was rewarding as Dwight flew with him and had not seen what they had done to honour his death at MAF.
In March 2022, Tom Hoey (Evangelical Church in Papua New Guinea) is publishing Bedamuni Bible via Hong Bible Society, quite an achievement. In intro, he honours Roy Hoey who flew Dwight and Pastor Isilowa whom Dwight knew when he visited in 1985.
Mavis Price is a family friend, whose father Rhys Price was a patrol officer in PNG in WWII (1940s) and later missionary with Presbyterian Inland Mission in Kimberley, WA when Dwight's parents Preston and Kath Walker and family were missionaries with UAM at Sunday Island, Derby and Fitzroy Crossing. She was a literacy teacher at Ukarumpa, PNG, for Wycliffe and SIL to translate the Bible into the local languages and teach literacy to villagers. Now she is part-time literacy lecturer at SIL Kangaroo Ground VIC (12/16).
WIFI and location database in Google Maps was developed by Dwight Walker. Around 2010, Dwight Walker mapped Mougulu and other mission stations on Google Maps, using PNG census statistics to draw him to the existence of Mougulu on Google Maps.
There are many technical issues in PNG e.g. network down, Website down (bugs, no support), mobile carrier down or no signal, weather destroying infrastructure, remote with no internet or mobile phone coverage.
From 2011 till 2017 Dwight Walker was honorary Webmaster of Digital Publications (ex Web and Electronic) Indexing SIG of American Society for Indexing. He listed SIL resources on fonts and scripting languages in resources to help other translators worldwide. That site is now only on WayBack Machine as it was taken down without notice in September 2017 to be replaced by another site using WordPress. Dwight kept backups.
In 2018 and 2019, I have met 4 or 5 PNG people on trains in Brisbane area. Many live in Moreton Bay Region (Caboolture, Morayfield, Petrie). They are from Catholic church in Caboolture (St Peters) and SDA church in Dakabin. In about 2015, I met PNG people in Caboolture going to SDA conference who were camping at Caboolture Showground. SDA have a big church, conference centre and caravan park at Dakabin called Watson Park where they hold their annual conferences for the South Pacific.
In Dec 2015 in Brisbane, Dwight Walker met an ex PNG policeman who informed him of police brutality being rife with very few being charged or sentenced for murdering civilians. He said AFP were only training PNG police.
- crime
- murder
- PNG is a very violent country full of angry and vindictive people willing to kill each other if provoked
- guns
- gruesome murders with machetes where corpse is cut up and high powered assault rifles (M16s, AR15s, and self-loading rifles as well as pump action shotguns) used to create most damage, destruction, misery and blood and guts are splattered everywhere
- PNG needs gun, machete and knife buy back scheme like Australia after massacre in Port Arthur Tasmania
- there must be a gun lobby in PNG preventing government from removing weapons in criminal hands
- 'An open secret': Papua New Guinea's gun problem 'difficult' to solve, journalist says 10/23
- centuries of tribal warfare in Enga Province - endemic evil in these people full of hate for each other, no peace, no love, joy, kindness, just envy, bitterness, hatred, enmity, party spirit, so much evil and rottenness that it will lead to demise
- cases
- corruption (bribery, corruption)
- Corruption in PNG - bribery, nepotism
- people living off welfare state required politicians to bribe locals to vote for them
- Bribery, nepotism ruining our nation 11/21 police recruitment nepotism leading to poor quality police
- money laundering
- corrupt business deals
- helping the old mate even if they are evil
- James Marape PNG PM comes from Tari in PNG Southern Highlands so doesn't want to get Australian troops to quash uprising in Enga Province because it is his old mates and he is against colonialism - nepotism
- syncretism: mixture of Christianity and tribalism causes all sorts of nepotism and letting off criminals Scot-free to give them a second chance to reform but usually it just lets evil proliferate and get out of control with gutless authorities doing little or nothing because they are related to the criminals - so they love their neighbour but they protect their relative even if they are evil
- there is a conflict of interest in criminal justice system in PNG - judge, jury, solicitor or policeman should not be related to defendant
- colonialism hangover
- History of PNG
- colony of Germany
- colony of Australia
- since colonialism new entrants have lined their pockets in public service jobs rather than help build their country - greed
- colonial mindset of someone else will do all the work and they can just ride easy leads to much apathy and no attitude to improve matters on their own without their previous colonial masters - stunted growth and dependency on colonial masters
- Cargo Cult attitude
- where belief is that some saviour like a foreign missionary will return and make all things right and bring free gifts
- but it is a lie and nobody ever comes decades later and nothing is ever done to improve matters but the belief stultifies their attitude so they do nothing just wait for the saviour to return and squander their precious time and do not fix anything themselves just wait for a saviour to return and give them everything they need for free so everything holds up waiting for an imaginery saviour and blocks all progress
- wantok system of informal systems of reciprocity (ISRs)
- rascals
- break and enter in Port Moresby PNG
- PNG Correctional Services - 21 jails
- not enough arrested and detained there due to weak police force or politicians
- books
- media
- Wantok Radio Light Christian radio station
- streaming and broadcast on FM 93.9 and 105.9 in PNG and shortwave 7325 kHz overseas
- EMTV Online TV station 1/22
- people
- WWII
- Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels Kokoda Trail, 1942
- Australian Army 6th Division and US Army fought Japanese Imperial Army in 1942-43 in Kokoda, Milne Bay, Gona, Buna and Sanananda
- Battle of Buna-Gona 1942-43
- Kokoda Track campaign 1942
- Brune, Peter, A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua: Kokoda - Milne Bay - Gona - Buna - Sanananda, Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2004, ISBN 978-1-74114-403-1 - Australian Army and US Army against Japanese Army 1942-43
- Sanananda 1942 - Australian War Memorial
- government
- finance
- businesses
- $17Bn K invested in PNG by 5000 Australian businesses 7/19 - Australia is biggest investor in PNG - mainly mining - ABC TV 22/7/19 (Australian PM meeting PNG PM)
- PNG Biomass 30MW electricity generator using renewable energy
- Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) controversial mine
- state-owned utilities
- education
- missions
- CRMF Christian Radio Missionary Fellowship, Goroka EHP
- technology for radio sched of MAF
- codes
- setup HF/VHF antennas and transceivers
- give electrical training
- work in villages with churches and communities
- work with MAF PNG
- saw their stand at Belgrave Heights Convention, Melbourne in 12/2016 where they get community support
- YWAM Medical Ships
- MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) (worldwide)
- airports
- aircraft
- Wycliffe Bible Translators - Dwight Walker knows Mavis Price at Ukarumpa and now Kangaroo Ground VIC 12/16
- Pioneers ex APCM
- Mt Margaret Mission, WA - UAM mission station Preston Walker worked at in 1940s
- Africa - Mavis' sister Rhondda Hall works as a literacy missionary with ACROSS in South Sudan then Uganda due to civil war
Created 12 Feb 2013 9:44
Updated 20 Feb 2024 14:06
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