MORE than 40 years ago, Australians felt a man called “Michael Tom Somare” had “sympathy with the communist cause”, according to classified Australian colonial administration recently made public.
The “angry young man overtly anti-European and anti-Australian, who has had numerous brushes with the authorities” is our current Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare.
An active Australian colonial intelligence network at that time also “watched” prominent pro-Independence PNG leaders, notably “J M Guise” who will end up being the leader of elected leaders of the House of Assembly, the forerunner to Parliament on Independence in 1975.
Confidential documents on these happenings, Australian attitude and the thinking of the people of the “Territory of Papua and New Guinea” about their future are contained in a 1,000-page book called Australia and PNG 1066-1969.
The format of the political status of “Papua and New Guinea” is discussed extensively in this book. See details in The Weekender today.

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