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PHILLIP BRUNSKILL had been training for the Kokoda Track since the start of the year. He was at the gym most days, his family says, and trekked around Epping carrying a backpack and trailed by his ...
Six Kokoda Track Authority (KTA) rangers—three women and three men—achieved a milestone as Papua New Guinea’s first graduates ...
The Kokoda Track Authority (KTA), established about 20 years ago, oversees tourism operations on the trail and sits under PNG's Department of Provincial and Local-level Government Affairs (DPLGA).
Landowners and workers for major trekking company Adventure Kokoda had barricaded road entrances to the track on the weekend. They were frustrated by the Papua New Guinea environment minister's ...
Next week, state Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh will lead a group of five Year 11 students from the electorate – and ...
The Kokoda Track campaign is one of the most significant chapters in Australia's military history. This is the story. Each year, on 25 April, Anzac Day commemorates soldiers from Australia and New ...
The Kokoda Track, a 60-mile path in Papua New Guinea where ill-equipped Australians fought against a much larger Japanese force in World War II, is now a hiking trail.
From the moment we woke each morning at 5.30, until the moment we crawled into our sleeping bags at 8pm, we were fully occupied with the pressing business of survival. Kokoda Trail is a life-altering ...
The Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea has been reopened after local workers who blockaded the historic trail when the Australian tour company they worked for was stripped of its licence were ...
The Kokoda Trail is famed in Australia as the site of the most important battle citizens fought—and won—against the Japanese in World War II. Now, trekking the 60-mile trail in Papua New ...