Josephine Abaijah recalls her first exposure to independence ideas at PMC, and her switch to joining the PMC staff. She describes doing a health education course at London University in 1967-68, and on her return setting up the Institute of Health Education.
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 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.
