Fifty years ago, Papua New Guinea was handed independence on a plate by its former self-proclaimed colonial mastas in Canberra.
The date of independence was September 16, 1975.
The movement towards independence came in the early 1970s, after the name Papua New Guinea was officially declared.
A period of self-governance for PNG then followed in 1973.
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