Biga Lebasi discusses racial discrimination, his experiences in marrying a white woman, examples of leaders around the world and the racism in Australia.
Charles Lepani discusses his high school education at Charters Towers, Queensland, which he completed in 1966, and becoming part of the second intake in 1967 into the University of Papua New Guinea where he met good friends Rabbie Namaliu, Tony Siaguru, and Mekere Morauta. He discusses the group's growing awareness regarding Independence and well as the sense of political awareness in the first generation of political leaders including Michael Somare, John Guise and his father Lepani Watson.
Ted Diro outlines the strong relationship between the PNGDF and Australian DF, and the differences in the relationship with Indonesia. He describes the personal impact of the Vanuatu intervention on participants.
Ted Diro discusses the impact of the PNG government's banning of contact with OPM and the context of Australia's relationship with Indonesia and the possibility of open warfare.
Josephine Abaijah discusses the reaction of others in parliament to the Papua Besena movement, the lack of support from other Papuans in parliament because she was a woman and the research that Papuans have since conducted into their own history. She recalls making arrangments to visit Australia but no government minister would meet with her resulting in her use of demonstrations back in PNG.
Josephine Abaijah relates that she only knew Papuans. Having recently attended reunions from this time she questions why Australia only took some Papuans for education when they were going to prepare Papua for independence.
Josephine Abaijah discusses her first encounters with Australians when she went to Australia when aged 15-16. She states that at Milne Bay she only had Papuan teachers, and sat for a scholarship examination. She recalls that her father was not happy about that but her mother encouraged her. She recalls that she joined a group who all went to schools in Charters Towers, Queensland.
