This painting by John Siune responds to the Papua New Guinean defence forces’ use of military helicopters supplied by the Australian government against the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA). The decade-long civil war (1988–98), in the now-autonomous region of Bougainville in far-eastern Papua New Guinea, was ignited by the environmental consequences and distribution of royalties of the majority foreign-owned Panguna mine (operated by British–Australian company Rio Tinto). The war claimed the lives of thousands of Bougainville landowners and Papua New Guinean soldiers. In Siune’s painting, the disparity between the two forces is emphasised – as is the need for independent documentation of the conditions on the ground. Siune, in the guise of the EMTV News camera, depicts the BRA in villagers’ clothes, barefoot and largely unarmed, while their better-equipped ‘redskin’ opponents attack in force. (‘Redskin’ is the name given to other Papua New Guineans by those living in Bougainville.)