Capital punishment, clemency and colonialism in Papua New Guinea, 1954-65 / Murray Chisholm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chisholm, Murray, author.

Series:

Pacific series.

Pacific series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment--Papua New Guinea--History--20th century.

Capital punishment.

Clemency--Papua New Guinea--History--20th century.

Clemency.

Papua New Guinea--Foreign public opinion, Australian.

Papua New Guinea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT : ANU Press, [2024]

Summary:

This study builds on a close examination of an archive of files that advised the Australian Commonwealth Executive on Papua New Guineans found guilty of capital offences in PNG between 1954 and 1965.

Contents:

Abstract

List of figures and tables

Figure 0.1: Numbers and types of sentences of death under different capital offences, 1949–66.

Figure 1.1: Topography of New Guinea.

Figure 1.2: ‘Educated in Australia, of course!’

Figure 3.1: Ela Beach Native Hospital, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1953.

Figure 3.2: Offences against women in Papua.

Figure 3.3: Offences against women in New Guinea.

Figure 4.1: Native prisoners weaving house walls, Minj Station, Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea, 1954.

Figure 5.1: Native village, Port Moresby, 1955 or 1956.

Figure 5.2: ‘His Excellency the Governor-General of Australia, Field Marshal Sir William Slim, inspects a guard of honour of the Pacific Islands Regiment at Port Moresby’, 1956.

Figure 7.1: ‘The valley floor—where once they were afraid to live (2) Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea, 1970’.

Figure 7.2: ‘Detainees working on the Corrective Institution farm at Bomana near Port Moresby’.

Table 4.1: Supreme Court prosecutions for sodomy.

Table 6.1: Tabulation of PNG Supreme Court judges’ sentencing records, 1954–59.

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Meet our friend, Papua New Guinea

2. ‘Why should the government want to fight us when we refuse to chip grass off the roads’: The Telefomin killings of 1954

3. ‘Mentally upset and a nymphomaniac’: R. v. Kita Tunguan, 1954

4. The limits of mercy in Australian PNG: R. v. Usamando, 1954

5. ‘The Crown as the fount of justice’: R. v. Ako Ove, 1956 and R. v. Sunambus, 1956

6. ‘We do not think this is a sufficient deterrent’: R. v. Aro of Rupamanda, 1957

7. The end of mandatory sentencing

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ISBN:

9781760466466

1760466468