Contributors

Bryant Allen is a Senior Fellow in the Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, at The Australian National University. He previously taught at the University of Papua and worked with the National Research Institute (). His recent work has focused on agricultural systems in Papua New Guinea, and has included extensive fieldwork in Tari. Laurie Bragge has served as Community Affairs Manager and Community Affairs Strategic Planner with Oil Search Ltd. He was a patrol officer/district officer in Papua New Guinea from 1961 to 1978, during which time he served in several provinces, including the Southern Highlands Province. During the 1980s he was involved in the tourism industry in Papua New Guinea. Stephanie Copus-Campbell is a former Director, Strategies and Program Planning Section, Papua New Guinea Branch of AusAID. Joseph Dorpar, from Kerowagi in Chimbu Province, is the administrator of Province, where he is working hard to restore services in a setting where the provincial government was largely crippled by unresolved conflict among its leaders. Prior to this he worked with the Ministry for Inter-Government Relations, and before that as Administrator of Chimbu Province. Laurence Goldman is currently Gas Project Community Affairs Field Manager with Esso Highlands Limited. He also holds an adjunct Associate Professor position in Anthropology at the University of Queensland. Dr Goldman conducted fieldwork among the Huli in the late 1970s, has published extensively on the Southern Highlands, and has had a longstanding academic career in both pure and applied anthropological research. Nicole Haley is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, at The Australian National University. She has extensive field research and consultancy experience in Papua New Guinea, particularly in the Southern Highlands. Joe Kanekane is a Southern Highlander who was Chief Political and Investigative Reporter with the former Independent newspaper in Papua New Guinea, and chair of the Editors Task Force on War Against Corruption. Kai Lavu is Manager, Community Affairs, with the Porgera Joint Venture, which operates the Porgera Gold Mine in , Papua New Guinea. Neryl Lewis is currently AusAID’s Emergencies Manager. Prior to taking up this position, Neryl managed the PNG Humanitarian Unit, overseeing AusAID support for disaster management, Bougainville and Southern Highlands Province.

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She joined AusAID in 2001, after completing a Master of Letters in Peace Studies at the University of New England, and worked on the PNG Program for four years. Jim Macpherson has taught at universities in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. His recent appointments have been as First Secretary in the Ministry responsible for provincial and local government affairs in Papua New Guinea, and currently, with Sir Peter Barter, First Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Papua New Guinea. Ronald J. May is a Visiting Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and Convenor of the Centre for Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies, Asia Pacific, at The Australian National University. He was formerly Director of the National Research Institute (Papua New Guinea). Philip Moya is a Southern Highlander currently working for Oil Search Limited as a senior community relations officer on the Papua New Guinea Gas Project. He has over 25 years of public service experience. Following the failed elections of 2002 he was appointed as Acting Deputy Provincial Administrator and Regional Coordinator (Western) for Southern Highlands. His chief responsibilities included co-ordinating law and order programs and re-establishing administrative functions in the Hela region. Maev O’Collins is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, and Emeritus Professor, University of Papua New Guinea. John Vail lived in Southern Highlands Province from 1980 to 2000, as a member the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research. Between 1995 and 2000 he managed the Family Health and Rural Improvement Program in Tari, a community-based organisation working to improve health and rural livelihoods. Now an Australian-based consultant, he is a founder member of TerraCircle, an association of people with wide experience in the Pacific which is providing technical support for the Melanesian Farmer First Network, a group of community-based organisations operating in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Noel H. Walters served as a government officer in Papua New Guinea from 1959 to 1986, first under the Australian colonial administration and then with the Independent government of Papua New Guinea. He was Secretary for the Department of Western Highlands Province for three years from 1983. In 1986 he took up a private sector appointment with the Porgera Joint Venture and was a departmental manager and head of the Community Affairs Department for over a decade.

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Chris Warrilow was Petroleum Registrar with the Department of Minerals and Energy/Petroleum and Energy from 1985 to 2000, and in this position was involved in the negotiation of agreements in several of the Southern Highlands project areas. Before this, he served as a patrol officer/district officer in several provinces, including the Southern Highlands.

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