{"id":1624947,"date":"2024-04-23T03:49:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T03:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=100117"},"modified":"2024-04-23T03:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T03:49:02","slug":"pngs-pm-marape-to-give-hand-to-his-bro-albanese-on-kokoda-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/23\/pngs-pm-marape-to-give-hand-to-his-bro-albanese-on-kokoda-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"PNG\u2019s PM Marape to \u2018give hand to his bro\u2019 Albanese on Kokoda Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived at Kokoda Station, Northern province, at the start of his state visit to Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>Both Albanese and Prime Minister James Marape will meet with the locals and the Northern Provincial government before they begin their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postcourier.com.pg\/aussie-pm-arrives-to-kokoda0\/\">walk along the historic 96km Kokoda Trail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were &#8220;excited&#8221; with Marape saying \u201che was there to lend a hand to his brother PM\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postcourier.com.pg\/kingsbury-and-the-perilous-fight-in-kokoda\/\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> Kingsbury and the perilous fight in Kokoda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/pacific\/programs\/pacificbeat\/kokoda-visit\/103756806\">Australian PM Albanese to walk historic Kokoda track with PNG PM Marape<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, the heroism of Australian soldier <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Kingsbury\">Private Bruce Steel Kingsbury<\/a> is being remembered in advance of ANZAC Day.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing his platoon would not last long with the continuous attack by the Japanese and suffering severe losses during World War Two, Private Kingsbury made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postcourier.com.pg\/kingsbury-and-the-perilous-fight-in-kokoda\/\">heroic decision to move<\/a> against the continuous firing and attacked the enemy which cost his life on 29 August 1942.<\/p>\n<p>The battle took place at Isurava, Kokoda. Where Private Kingsbury fell is a memorial which is known as \u201cKingsbury Rock\u201d beside the Isurava Memorial which Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit for the ANZAC Dawn service.<\/p>\n<p>Private Kingsbury\u2019s sacrifice earned him a Victoria Cross. He is buried at the Bomana War Cemetery outside Port Moresby and is one of 625 Australians who were killed in action along the Kokoda track, another 1055 were wounded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Battle for PNG<\/strong><br \/>\nThe battle to protect Papua and New Guinea, as it was known back then, took about 9000 lives and the remnants of war still remain in the jungles of PNG with more men still missing in action.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_100122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100122\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-100122 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Kingsbury-PNGPC-680wide.png\" alt=\"Private Bruce Kingsbury\" width=\"680\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Kingsbury-PNGPC-680wide.png 680w, https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Kingsbury-PNGPC-680wide-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Private Bruce Kingsbury . . . a memorial known as \u201cKingsbury Rock\u201d stands where he fell in battle against the Japanese in 1942. Image: PNG Post-Courier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prime ministers Marape and Albanese will walk a section of the Kokoda track to honour the shared history and enduring bond between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe visit of Prime Minister Albanese underscores the close relationships between our countries,\u201d said Prime Minister Marape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be joining him for a walk along the Kokoda Trail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Albanese is set to be the first sitting prime minister to walk part of the famous 96km track.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Rudd walked the Kokoda Track in 2006 while he was opposition leader while former prime minister Scott Morrison also hiked the track in 2009 during his time as a backbench MP.<\/p>\n<p><em>Miriam Zarriga<\/em> <em>is a PNG Post-Courier reporter. Republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2024\/04\/23\/pngs-pm-marape-to-give-hand-to-his-bro-albanese-on-kokoda-trail\/\">Asia Pacific Report<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived at Kokoda Station, Northern province, at the start of his state visit to Papua New Guinea. Both Albanese and Prime Minister James Marape will meet with the locals and the Northern Provincial government before they begin their walk along the historic 96km<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1757,175,78821,432,5,365,622,1739,78822,78825,10,12,366,14,39562,15497,1743,78826],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626618,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624947\/revisions\/1626618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}