One of the founding members of Pangu Pati Tony Voutas also travelled to Wewak on the weekend to celebrate Grand Chief Sir Michael Thomas Somare's 80th birthday.
Voutas travelled all the way from China to celebrate the occasion.
Voutas took over the Pangu Pati leadership from Bill Bloomfield in 1966.
He was a young patrol officer who had just picked up a degree in Indonesian studies at ANU at that time.
In the next few years Voutas became one of the founding fathers of the Pangu Pati and an adviser to PNG’s first prime minister, Michael Somare.
Voutas was a prominent, indeed an eminent, figure in PNG in the sixties and early 1970s – and then he was gone. So what became of Anthony Constantine –aka- ‘Toni’ Voutas?
Well it turns out that Tony Voutas is a chang zhu de, or long time expatriate, in Beijing.
He’s been in China for nearly 30 years and is Managing Director of his own company, Asia Pacific Access.
APA consults to multinational companies doing business in China, its services including relocation, cross-cultural training, human resource management, business set-up and remote site investigation in China.
In an interview Voutas briefly explained how they formed the government and how Grand chief Sir Michael Somare became the first prime minister in 1975.
He said with the current leadership of Sam Basil, Pangu will be again the party the people will chose to represent them in parliament.
He will be leaving for China today.