Australian Newspaper (Papua New Guinea Post-Courier)

History

The Papua New Guinea Post-Courier was the main English-language daily newspaper of Port Moresby, established in 1969 from the merger of two earlier colonial-era papers. It served the expatriate community, government officials, and the growing educated Papua New Guinean readership during the territory's transition from Australian administration to independence in 1975.

The archive's clippings span 1970 to 1981, covering the final years of Australian colonial governance and the first years of PNG independence. This period saw continued reports of unexplained aerial and luminous phenomena across Papua New Guinea's highlands and coastal regions, following a tradition of sightings that stretched back to the famous Boianai observations of 1959 witnessed by Reverend William Gill.