Tony Voutas

Voutas turns up for Chief Somare’s 80th do

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?