No Way Out!

My wonderful life in Papua New Guinea quickly became a nightmare

Carolyn Blacklock, 52, Somerset, Qld.

Staring out at the crowd of people waiting for us, I smiled. “This is for you,” one local told me, gesturing to a pig tied to a post. It was 2019, and as the managing director of PNG Power, I was visiting Tari, a town in Papua New Guinea (PNG) where we’d launched a new substation. The locals celebrated the occasion by dressing me in traditional clothing, performing a cultural dance and giving me their livestock as gifts. I’d moved to PNG a decade earlier to work as a banking consultant and quickly fell in love with the people’s warm, welcoming nature. I’d grown up on a cattle station in Far North Queensland without electricity, so I became an advocate for bringing power to the people of PNG once I…

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