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Tagged: Papua New Guinea

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Black Harvest: Grieving
At a big gathering, people are stunned and grieving. Madang, one of Joe’s main adversaries regarding the plantations, has been killed. In interview, a very distraught Joe Leahy laments what is going...
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Joe Leahy’s Neighbours: ‘Bride-price’
At a village meeting, two highlanders are bartering a 'bride-price’. On offer are pigs rather than money. The young girl and her family are given a choice to accept the boy and the bride-price or not...
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Joe Leahy’s Neighbours: Debate
At a community meeting, a young man debates with Joe Leahy about the profit split of their Kaugum coffee plantation. Leahy explains how he is the one taking the risk with the bank loan. Summary by...
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Black Harvest: Realities
At a meeting of the Ganiga tribe, Joe and his ally, tribal elder Popina Mai, speak about the plan for Ganiga to work on the plantation. The coffee prices are falling and Joe Leahy needs their help....
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Black Harvest: Warfare and its consequences
In a wide shot, many highlanders are chanting and running through the grass with spears. Joe sits at home looking distraught. The Ganiga return to the village and attend to a wounded man. They can’t...
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Joe Leahy’s Neighbours: Soot-blackened arrows
At a village gathering, the father of a wounded Ganiga man, shot by a Gaimelka man, has a stand-off with a Lutheran pastor who had been trying to calm things down. Taking no notice of the pastor, the...
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First Contact: Young women and the Leahy brothers
A group of women talk about their experiences with the Leahy brothers. They describe how, as young women, their people sold them to the Leahy brothers for sexual purposes. Summary by Pat Fiske
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First Contact: Guns and pigs
In interview and voice-over, James Leahy recollects the first time the Leahy brothers came across a new community of highlanders. He explains that, fearful of being outnumbered by large numbers of...
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Colonists For A Day
Colonists for a Day looks at Australia's role in the development of the nation of Papua New Guinea, featuring eyewitness accounts and rare archival footage. For 70 years (1906-1975) the eastern half...
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