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Matilda Pilacapio - 00:19:19

Interview: 
Matilda Pilacapio
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00:19:19

Matilda Pilacapio discusses how she was treated by the whites in PNG, saying she mixed well. She recalls joining the Girl Guides Movement and then took her uniform back and joined the Boy Scouts instead and became a cub master. She states that Samarai was a small island and everyone played soccer or cricket and mixed together.

Ted Diro - 00:19:37

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Ted Diro
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00:19:37

Ted Diro describes the cross section of boys at Sogeri from other districts, and how sports and speaking English united them. He describes basketball and Aussie Rules football games.

Josephine Abaijah - 00:10:11

Interview: 
Josephine Abaijah
Time: 
00:10:11

Josephine Abaijah discusses sport in Papua, and learning basketball from the women in the village in Milne Bay. She recalls playing at school and for Papua Medical College against the Teachers College. She relates how at PMC she began working in rural areas of Central Province doing work in health education.

Josephine Abaijah - 00:08:52

Interview: 
Josephine Abaijah
Time: 
00:08:52

Josephine Abaijah discusses how she became involved in activism. She recalls her time at the Papuan Medical College and her contact with the Australian medical profession who taught her to stand up for herself as at that time the status of women in PNG was very low. She recalls that while at the Papuan Medical College she represented the country at the South Pacific Games held in Fiji in basketball.

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