Time Traveller

As a schoolgirl in 1972, Susan Karike Huhume from Gulf Province entered a competition to design a national flag for Papua New Guinea. Her design was selected from hundreds of entries, but her contribution was largely overlooked as the country went about the important preparations for independence on September 16, 1975. It was not until 1986 that then prime minister, Paias Wingti, awarded her an Independence Medal in recognition of her services. She is pictured here with Sir John Guise who, at independence, was appointed as the first governor-general of the country.

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