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FOREIGN
CORRESPONDENT
2018
The
Village
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Precis
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Sean Dorney got thrown out of PNG for
his reporting, yet he received one of its top honours. He skippered its footy
team and fell for a local girl. Now suffering motor neurone disease, he makes
an emotional final visit. |
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For most Australians, Manus Island
evokes a grim, now-shuttered detention centre, nothing more. But for veteran
ABC correspondent Sean Dorney, it’s paradise. |
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It’s where he married a chief’s
daughter, Pauline, after draining his bank account to pay bride price, and
where the embrace of a vast extended family awaits… |
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People have said to me that Pauline is
like a princess in Manus, whereas you’re just a commoner -– Dorney |
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…And it’s where Sean and his beloved
Pauline are now returning, in what will probably be his last time in PNG, the
country that’s defined his life. |
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The thing is I’ve now got motor neurone
disease. I may have just two years left - Dorney |
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As his boat touches shore, a burly
tribesman lifts the frail Dorney and carries him to the sand. Tears flow in a
tempest of drums and song. |
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Even the smallest children are
constantly dancing. I’m no longer up to the more vigorous moves – but even
with a walking stick one can but try – Dorney at welcome ceremony |
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Sean Dorney first reported on PNG
before it won independence from Australia. He ended up a household name,
thanks to his reporting of political crises, disasters and daily life
struggles. |
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Thanks too to his place in the national
rugby league side. His team mates called
him “Grasscutter” for his tackling style.
It’s a sport that unites a country where 860 languages are spoken…
though Pauline needed lots of persuasion. |
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I was thinking, do they call this
sport? This is not sport. This is a bunch of dogs fighting over chicken bones – Pauline Nare, Sean’s wife |
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On this farewell journey to PNG, Dorney
makes a special report for Foreign Correspondent. He finds nuggets of
progress, like more girls getting educated. He unleashes his frustrations in
trying to inform Australians about their nearest neighbour, about whom they
seem to care little. |
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Frankly I’m appalled at the lack of
coverage in Australia – Dorney |
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It’s his journey as a sick man to his
and Pauline’s Manus clan that showcases PNG’s great treasure -- the pulsating
villages where 80 per cent of its people live. They’re poor but they enjoy
what Sean calls “subsistence affluence”. |
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In Tulu, Sean is initiated as a clan
chief, a first for an outsider. Then, before Sean is carried back into the
boat, comes Tulu’s healing ceremony, unforgettable in its passion and
unimaginably removed from the high-tech Australian medicine to which he will
return. |
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Manus
islanders dancing/Dorney watching dancing |
Music |
00:00 |
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SEAN DORNEY: For more than four decades, Papua
New Guinea was my home base |
00:04 |
Dorney
on boat on river |
to cover some incredible stories from natural
disasters, to political coups and civil wars. |
00:09 |
News
archive. Dorney to camera |
NEWS ARCHIVE: “Sean Dorney on Manus Island for
ABC News”. |
00:15 |
Still.
Dorney and rugby team/Archive. Dorney rugby team |
SEAN DORNEY:
I even got to Captain the national rugby league team. NEWS ARCHIVE: “Sean Dorney sends a long pass… |
00:18 |
Archive
of rugby match |
and it’s a try for Papua New Guinea”. |
00:24 |
Dorney
in bar watching rugby |
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00:27 |
Dorney
in hospital |
SEAN DORNEY:
Now, I’m living back in Australia and facing my toughest assignment
yet – trying to beat a deadly disease – |
00:33 |
Kids
in canoe/Manus Islanders |
but while I still can, |
00:42 |
Islanders
perform healing ceremony on Dorney |
I’m determined to show you the Papua New Guinea
that few Australians get to see and a place that I have come to love. |
00:45 |
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[Singing] |
00:53 |
Title
over boat on water: |
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01:05 |
Super
over Dorney in boat returning to island: |
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01:10 |
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SEAN DORNEY: For over 40 years, Papua New
Guinea has defined my life. I’ve known
it since before independence in 1975 as a reporter, husband and a
father. |
01:17 |
Dorney
and Pauline in boat returning to Manus Island |
I married a proud Papua New Guinean, Pauline
Nare, the daughter of a chief. And
we’re heading back to her remote home village, Tulu, on, of all places, Manus
Island. |
01:31 |
Islanders
welcome Dorney and Pauline |
[Drumming] |
01:44 |
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SEAN DORNEY: Today, though, it feels bittersweet. |
01:56 |
Man
carries Dorney from boat to shore |
The thing is, I’ve got Motor Neurone Disease
and have trouble walking, let alone getting out of a boat. Eventually, my whole body will shut down. I
may have just two years left to live.
But this rotten disease is not going to stop me from soaking up the
embrace of my extended family. “Over the years I’ve always loved |
01:59 |
Dorney
to camera |
coming back here to Pauline’s village. This may be the last time. |
02:30 |
Women
embrace Dorney/ Islanders GVs |
But the thing that is so good about coming back
here, is you actually get to meet the Papuan New Guineans who live this
village lifestyle. Eighty per cent of
Papua New Guineans still live in their villages and when you come to a
village like this, you see the resilience of the people. They look after themselves, they feed
themselves, they get the fish from the sea, they get the food from the gardens,
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02:37 |
Dorney
to camera |
and this is the real strength that Papua New
Guinea has, and it’s one of the reasons I love the place”. |
03:04 |
Islanders
on beach |
PAULINE NARE: “It is a completely different
lifestyle. |
03:10 |
Pauline
interview. Super: |
A lifestyle in which I think many of us always
sort of just took for granted. |
03:16 |
Island
GVs |
Walking to school, walking back, I had the type
of freedom that I wish and I would provide to my grandchildren. |
03:23 |
Pauline
interview |
It is, it’s very idyllic lifestyle”. |
03:33 |
Island
people GVs – cooking and working |
SEAN DORNEY: The economists say PNG has high
unemployment and widespread poverty, but there’s no hunger here and everybody
works. I much prefer the term, “subsistence affluence”. |
03:36 |
Women
cooking |
Australians mostly associate Manus with the
offshore detention of asylum seekers.
To me though, it is a place of joy, |
03:56 |
Islanders
dance |
famous for its suggestive dancing. Missionaries did their best to ban it, but
they failed. |
04:06 |
Archive.
Dorney dancing |
After I saw it first back in the 1970s, it
became my signature party trick. |
04:13 |
Children
dancing with Dorney |
I’m no longer up to its more vigorous moves,
but even with a walking stick one can but try. |
04:27 |
Children
at school dance welcome for Dorney |
To get a sense of what the future may hold for
PNG, I figure a visit to the local primary school is a good place to
start. My nephew Alex, is the
headmaster here. |
04:39 |
Children
sing anthem with Dorney |
[Singing] |
04:55 |
Flag
raising |
[addressing the kids at school] “I’m so pleased
to be here. |
05:09 |
Dorney
addresses school kids |
You kids, you’re the future of this
country. My wife started her schooling
here, and Pauline went on to become the first girl to work for the NBC in
Radio Manus. She was the first radio
announcer [applause] and then she
went to Port Moresby and she met me.
So, we have, we got married in 1976. We’ve got two children and three
bubus, three grandchildren now”. |
05:12 |
Alex
into classroom |
Alex is an exceptional teacher with his
students at previous schools topping the province. ALEX: “My hope for the school here |
05:52 |
Alex
interview |
is to see the students excelling academically,
by producing better results, seeing most of them going to high schools”. |
06:01 |
Girls
in school |
SEAN DORNEY: One positive development, the
number of girls going to school has doubled in recent years. |
06:11 |
Dorney
addresses school kids |
[addressing the kids at school] “Work hard,
study hard, but if you fail, just keep going.
I went to university to do economics and I failed every subject in my
first year at university, because I concentrated too much on playing rugby
league. But I kept going and I got a
job at the ABC, and eventually I became one of the ABC’s foreign
correspondents”. |
06:20 |
Alex
and Dorney walk. Children dance welcome |
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06:47 |
Dorney
in boat |
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06:52 |
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SEAN DORNEY:
One of PNG’s most precious resources is its vast tropical forests.
They’re in danger elsewhere but here, so far, they’re being preserved. |
06:57 |
Dorney
in boat on river with Otto |
Two beautiful rivers, Yiri and Oseu define the boundaries of Pauline’s peoples’
land. They’re pristine. There are crocodiles here. And lining the banks, sago trees, one of
the staple sources of food here. There
are other trees of course, tropical hardwoods much prized by the logging
industry. The spokesman for the Tulu
conservation group, Otto Cho’on, tells me they’ve seen what’s happened
elsewhere. |
07:09 |
Otto
and Dorney |
OTTO CHO’ON: “We have a village nearby us, Drehet
village where there is a logging company operating in the meantime or at the
moment. There have been talks here, or
we have been discussing, if they could come in to log our area, but so far,
we have not agreed. We have decided
not to engage them”. SEAN DORNEY: “Because there’s been a lot of
damage in other places?” OTTO CHO’ON: “That’s right, that’s right. Back there in their village they have
almost lost all their trees”. |
07:43 |
Kids
walk over bridge/boat on river |
Music |
08:10 |
Port
Moresby GVs |
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08:17 |
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SEAN DORNEY: A world away from Tulu, the
capital Port Moresby, is bursting at the seams. With a population of upwards of a million
people, it has grown enormously since I first arrived as a young journalist
44 years ago. |
08:20 |
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Music |
08:38 |
Police/Security
guards |
SEAN DORNEY: Crime was already an issue then,
but these days it’s worse, and security is a growth industry. |
08:45 |
ABC’s Port Moresby bureau |
This is the ABC’s Port Moresby bureau from
where I covered a multitude of stories.
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08:5 |
News
archive montage. Dorney's news reports |
There was the volcano that destroyed much of
Rabaul, the horrific tsunami that
killed two and a half thousand people in the West Sepik Province, political
crises that regularly saw prime ministers thrown out through motions of no
confidence and the longest ongoing tragedy, the ten-year Bougainville civil
war. Sir Julius Chan tried to end that
by hiring African mercenaries through a British company, Sandline
International. |
09:01 |
Dorney's
book 'The Sandline Affair' |
But the PNG Army rounded them up and booted
them out. |
09:36 |
News
archive. PNG army, Sandline |
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09:38 |
News
archive. Dorney deportation |
I was booted out, too. Deported from PNG in retaliation for an ABC
story the government objected to. But
they let me back |
09:41 |
Still.
Dorney MBE with Pauline |
and six years later, I was given a gong, an
MBE. |
09-52 |
Eric
at ABC bureaus |
There used to be four full time Australian
correspondents based here, now it’s down to just one – the ABC’s Eric Tlozek. |
09:57 |
Dorney
with Eric at bureau |
“Eric, in 1984 the government decided to boot
me out of here over a story relating to the Irian Jayan border. You’ve been threatened with deportation,
haven’t you?” ERIC TLOZEK: “Yes, yeah I have the letters I
can show you. |
10:10 |
Super: |
Hand delivered deportation letters over the
student shootings in 2016 and the subsequent political crisis. Corruption allegations about the prime
minister have been big news for a number of years and there was enormous
sensitivity about them”. |
10:22 |
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SEAN DORNEY:
I feel it’s crucial that Australians are told about what’s going on in
our nearest neighbour and former colony. |
10:37 |
News
archive. PNG Earthquake |
NEWSREADER “The death toll is expected to rise
from Monday’s earthquake in Papua New Guinea”. NEWS ARCHIVE: “Families, homes and gardens were
swallowed up by the ground when the powerful earthquake shook these
mountains”. |
10:45 |
Eric
and Dorney at computer watching footage |
ERIC TLOZEK: “As you can see, this moonscape
just appears and there were people living there and that was their food
gardens, their pigs, everything was in this area that is now just completely
disappeared, it’s been buried”. |
10:56 |
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SEAN DORNEY: “It actually appals me that the
Australian media in general has not paid the attention to this disaster that
it should have done”. |
11:08 |
News
archive. Eric report |
NEWS ARCHIVE: “This highway goes towards the
quake epicentre. It’s one of many
roads…” |
11:16 |
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SEAN DORNEY: Eric has since moved to a new
posting, but says this is has been the best job he’s ever had. ERIC TLOZEK: “It is one of the most interesting
countries in the world |
11:20 |
Eric
and Dorney |
and the amazing thing about it, is that it’s
accessible. |
11:30 |
Stills.
Eric photographing men |
You know, people are so welcoming. They want to show you their culture, they
want to discuss the changes that are happening in their country because as
people like to say, |
11:33 |
Eric
and Dorney |
my grandfather was a cannibal and now, you know,
I have, I am on Facebook and my cousin flies a plane, you know, [laughing]
and, you know, my brother’s an engineer.
You know, I mean where else in the world do you find things like
that?” |
11:41 |
APEC
Haus |
SEAN DORNEY: Right now, Port Moresby is
preparing to host world leaders at the APEC summit in November. It’s a huge deal for PNG. |
11:54 |
APEC
signage/Roadworks |
Australia and China appear to be in competition
over who is going to pay the most to help make it happen. You can hardly move in Moresby for the
Chinese roadworks. I suspect the new
ABC correspondent will be spending a lot of time reporting on China’s
increasing influence. |
12:05 |
Dorney
with O'Neill |
But Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says China’s
interest is welcome. “There seems to be some concern in Australia at
the moment about China, and not only Papua New Guinea, but the rest of the
Pacific. Is there a reason why Australia
should be a bit worried about |
12:28 |
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China’s influence?” PRIME MINISTER PETER O’NEILL: “Well, firstly we
have no security arrangements with China.
Ours is business. If Australia
stops doing business with China, we will stop doing business with China. But I think everybody’s doing business with
China. We have to continue to export
our resources like oil and gas and copper and gold to China like Australia
and everyone else”. |
12:44 |
O'Neill
press conference |
NEWSREEL: “Papua New Guinea is very fortunate
to be part of the APEC process. There
are clear benefits from the support that we are receiving and China is the
biggest supporter of our country”. |
13:06 |
Cars
driving to rugby |
SEAN DORNEY: It’s not China that preoccupies
most people here, they’re more interested in the footy. |
13:25 |
Rugby
match |
Music |
13:31 |
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SEAN DORNEY: In a country that speaks 860
distinct languages, rugby league is a great unifying force. |
13:34 |
Dorney
at rugby |
To look at me now, you might not believe it, |
13:46 |
Archival.
Dorney rugby, in bus |
but I had great success as a half back in the
1970s. I played five matches for the
national side and had the great honour of being elected captain by my
teammates in my final game. |
13:51 |
Pauline
in stand at rugby |
Pauline was not so impressed the first time she
saw me play. PAULINE NARE: “I was so shocked |
14:10 |
Pauline
interview |
and I ended up sitting in the lady’s toilet for
the rest of the game because I was just shaking, thinking do they call this
sport? This is not sport. This is a
bunch of dogs fighting over chicken bones”. |
14:17 |
Dorney
at rugby match |
SEAN DORNEY: Alone with marrying Pauline, being
a past Kumul captain has given me a profile in this country that still opens
a lot of doors, |
14:30 |
Asylum
seekers file footage |
especially when I want to broach sensitive
topics like the so-called Pacific Solution with PNG’s top politicians. Peter
O’Neill says he doesn’t regret allowing Australia to use the Manus naval base
as a processing centre. PRIME MINISTER PETER O’NEILL: “If I did not
offer the solution, |
14:44 |
O'Neill
interview |
there will be certainly more deaths of children
and all the people on boats who were going to Australia. The boat travelling and smuggling of people
from Indonesia and other parts of Asia to Australia would not have
stopped. So, we offered it as a
humanitarian effort to try and stop that”. |
15:02 |
Manus
GVs. Rain |
SEAN DORNEY:
Back on Manus, the remaining asylum seekers are now free to roam
around the provincial capital, but none have ventured as far as |
15:23 |
Clan
initiation ceremony |
Pauline’s peoples’ land. To my surprise and delight, Pauline’s
brother Bernard, now paramount chief of Tulu’s nine clans, has decreed that I
be initiated as a chief of his and Pauline’s clan, the Petepwak. This is a real honour. It’s never been done before for an
outsider. Augustine, the clan
spokesman, seemingly berates Pauline for having left the village. But then he welcomes us back. |
15:35 |
Augustine
presents Dorney with bags, shells and the dog’s
teeth |
These things, the Manus bags, the shells and
the dog’s teeth are traditional currency. |
16:20 |
Dorney
addressing ceremony guests |
“My
heart is beating fast. I’m so, so
happy and the best thing I ever did in my entire life was meet this one
here. Pauline. She has been the greatest wife you can
imagine. I perhaps have not been the
best husband. It has been a wonderful thing for me to have visited the
village, stayed here over the years a number of times, but also being married
to Pauline has given me an understanding of Papua New Guinea that other
reporters do not have. And so I would
just like to thank everyone here for being so friendly and so happy, and also
for laughing when I try and do the Manus dance”. |
16:43 |
Pauline
at ceremony |
PAULINE NARE: “I’m a Papua New Guinean and I’m
Manusian, |
17:43 |
Pauline
interview |
and I’m a Petepwak woman and being a Petepwak
woman is my identity. It’s very important to me and it’s a nothing to
everyone out there, but for me it’s my status. It flows in my veins. Everything up here is about the tribe that
I was born into”. |
17:51 |
Pauline
dances with women. Men play guitars and ukuleles |
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18:14 |
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SEAN DORNEY:
In PNG most villages have one of these, they call them a string
band. Tulu’s best string band composed
this song about Pauline and me and the ABC. |
18:23 |
Men
sing and play song about Pauline and Dorney |
SINGING: “We thank you Pauline Nare for
bringing your husband home. Foreign correspondent Sean Dorney who worked for
the ABC”. |
18:37 |
Pauline
walks |
SEAN DORNEY:
Pauline though keeps my feet firmly planted. She’s definitely not one
to join all the others in telling me I’m a great bloke. |
19:03 |
Pauline
and Dorney |
PAULINE NARE: “Ah yeah… conniving, never home,
forgets people’s birthdays… yeah, is never considerate. I believe that I married down instead of
up”. |
19:13 |
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SEAN DORNEY: “You did. I mean you come from the
land-owning clan, the people who own so much of the land here and your father
was the chief”. |
19:29 |
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PAULINE NARE: “Yeah no Dad wasn’t happy. Dad wasn’t happy. He said no, you’re not marrying anyone from
outside of Manus and definitely you’re not marrying a white man”. |
19-39 |
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SEAN DORNEY: “But when we did get married and I
paid the bride price, I always felt very welcomed in the village. So did
someone convince him?” PAULINE NARE: “I did. I told him that they
should be thankful that you actually had gone and taken every penny that you
had in the bank and given it to him”. |
19:49 |
Pauline
dancing to Sean's song |
[Singing] |
20:08 |
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SEAN DORNEY: “One of the great things about our
relationship is that Pauline will always be a Papuan New Guinean and I will
always be an Australian. |
20:23 |
Dorney
interview |
If only there were more relationships like
ours, then the relationship between the two countries might be a hell of a
lot better”. |
20:30 |
Pauline
and Dorney wedding photos |
Our fathers never met but I’m sure they would
have hit it off. |
20:39 |
Stills.
Dorney's parents |
In fact, they were in New Guinea at the same
time. |
20:45 |
Archive.
War footage |
It was the Second World War and Manus was known
as the Admiralty island. |
20:50 |
Wartime
newsreel |
NEWSREEL ARCHIVE: “Striking suddenly in the south-west
Pacific, General MacArthur leads combined sea, air and land forces against
the Admiralty island, just north of New Guinea”. |
21:00 |
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SEAN DORNEY: The Americans took Manus back from
the Japanese. |
21:09 |
Still.
Pauline's family |
Pauline’s father had been put to work as forced
labour |
21:12 |
Wartime
newsreel |
building an airstrip. NEWSREEL ARCHIVE: “The airstrip and the
landscaping were all done by the natives”. SEAN DORNEY: My father, too, |
21:16 |
Archive.
Wartime. Dorney's father in jeep |
ended up in PNG during the war as a doctor with
the Australian Army. This is some
actual footage of him tending to the wounded in a jeep. |
21:23 |
Wartime
newsreel |
NEWSREEL ARCHIVE: “Allied doctors worked
unceasingly in fever laden heat”. |
21:34 |
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SEAN DORNEY: He’d been captured by the Germans
on Crete, but incredibly, after escaping from his prisoner of war camp, he
made his way back to Australia and then came up here to face the
Japanese. |
21:38 |
Bomana War Cemetery |
[Singing] |
21:59 |
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SEAN DORNEY:
The Pacific war took a lot of Australian lives. At the Bomana War Cemetery just outside
Port Moresby, there are more Australian soldiers buried in the one place than
anywhere else in the world. |
22:04 |
Dorney
at Bomana War Cemetery |
[at the cemetery] “Really, it was in defence of
Australia that those guys died during the Second World War here. |
22:17 |
|
I was there that day at Kokoda when Keating got
down and kissed the ground and then said, this place should be more
significant to us than Anzac Cove”. |
22:25 |
Wartime
newsreel |
NEWSREEL ARCHIVE: “When Kokoda was recaptured
and the enemy driven out, the immediate threat of a battle for Australia was
averted”. |
22:36 |
End
of Kokoda track |
[Singing] |
22:44 |
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SEAN DORNEY: The Japanese got to within 10
kilometres of here, |
22:51 |
Dorney
at Kokoda |
the southern end of the Kokoda track. They were just 60 kilometres from Port
Moresby. My father’s war in New Guinea
came a bit later after the Japanese were pushed back to the other side of
these mountains. “He had a heroic war, actually. |
22:54 |
Photo.
Dorney's father in uniform |
He go the Distinguished Service Order, the DSO,
for bravery for a time when they got cut off |
23:10 |
Dorney |
for three days, the unit he was with, and they
had to repel the Japanese and he had to look after all the wounded. And he
told me at one stage that they couldn’t use any light, so at night when
anyone was wounded, he had to feel their wounds with his hands and try and
bandage them up”. |
23:16 |
Dorney
with walkers at end of track |
Forty-five thousand Australians have walked the
Kokoda Track in the past decade. |
23:34 |
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“Can I ask any of you guys, you know, why
you’re doing it?” |
23:41 |
Australian
man |
AUSTRALIAN MAN: “My great uncle was killed in
one of the beach head battles in late '42, early '43 -- actually I think he
died in '43 -- and so I’m the first family member to come and see his grave
at Bomana today and, yeah, walk the track”. |
23:45 |
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SEAN DORNEY: “My father was a doctor with the
Field Ambulance. His weapon of choice
he told me was an Owen gun, which he had strapped to his back as a
doctor. |
23:58 |
Walkers
with trek leader |
[to the trek leader] And how long is it going
to take them?” TREK LEADER: “Nine days. For us today it will
just be a short half-day to, shall we say, break people in gently”. SEAN DORNEY:
“It’s terrific to see these young Australians, |
24:11 |
Drone
shot. Walkers on track |
you know, taking on the Kokoda Track and
walking along it, but one of the things I would like to see is Australians
taking far more interest in Papua New Guinea beyond just the Kokoda
experience, because |
24:26 |
Dorney
at Bomana |
our relationship with Papua New Guinea, we ran
the place for 70-odd years, but so many Australians have no idea these days
what’s going on up here”. |
24:39 |
Islanders
heading for church |
Despite the strong tribal traditions, the major
Christian religions remain hugely influential in PNG. Of a Sunday, almost everyone seems to go to
church. |
24:56 |
Islanders
in church |
My mother would have approved. For many years she went to a Catholic Mass
every single day. |
25:09 |
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[Congregation singing] |
25:16 |
Man
carries Dorney to beach |
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25:26 |
Islanders
carry cross for prayer for Dorney |
SEAN DORNEY:
Pauline’s people are also committed Catholics and some fervently
believe faith can rid me of Motor Neurone Disease. They are carrying this cross to where they
will pray for me to be healed. |
25:43 |
Pauline
and Dorney sit at cross, islanders pray and sing |
[Singing] |
26:03 |
Dorney
at Brisbane Hospital |
|
26:29 |
|
SEAN DORNEY: Back in Brisbane, I have
volunteered to help the scientists search for a cure for Motor Neurone
Disease. But no amount of high tech medicine can match this passion. |
26:37 |
Islanders
sing and pray with Dorney and Pauline |
[Singing] |
26:49 |
|
SEAN DORNEY: So far, no change but here’s
hoping. |
27:17 |
Dorney
and Pauline leave Manus |
SEAN DORNEY:
As we say goodbye – for me perhaps for the last time – I can’t help
but feel that as someone who has spent so much of my career attempting to
unravel the complexity and foibles of Papua New Guinea, I’m not that much
closer to getting it right. |
27:31 |
Kids
in canoes/Islanders dance |
We often hear about all the problems in Papua
New Guinea and there is no denying it has its share. But Australians deserve
to know about the positives too. And if village life remains as joyful and
fulfilling as it is here in Tulu, then that a great thing. |
27:49 |
Man
carries Dorney to boat |
And I wish them all the best! |
28:12 |
Pauline
waves. Boat departs |
[Singing] |
28:17 |
Credits
start over drone shot of boat |
Reporter - Sean Dorney Producer - Ben Hawke Camera - Craig Berkman Editor - Peter O’Donoghue Sound/Drone - Paul Castellaro PNG Fixers - Tania Nugent, Joy Kisselpar War footage –
Australian War Memorial Executive Producer - Marianne Leitch Foreign Correspondent Copyright © 2018 |
28:28 |
Outpoint
after credits |
|
28:53 |