Writer with a passion for PNG and polo
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By Tom Breen
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CHRISTOPHER ASHTON: 1941 – 2021
Christopher Philip Mackenzie (Chris) Ashton (1941 – 2021) was an acclaimed Australian journalist, foreign correspondent, and travel writer. His death on Wednesday May 5 in Buenos Aires, aged 79, marked the end of more than five decades of thoughtful and adventuresome journalism. His foreign postings included Port Moresby (PNG) for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, when Chris reported on the lead up to and the proclamation of PNG independence in 1975, and later as a correspondent from Salisbury, Rhodesia through its tortuous road to independence.
Writer with a passion for PNG and polo
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