September
East Timor gives Pope Francis a massive welcome
Timorese jammed the motorcade route, waving Vatican and Timorese flags and toting yellow and white umbrellas – the colours of the Holy See.
- Nicole Winfield and Niniek Karmini
June
- Opinion
- China relations
Why Australia needs to stop being PNG’s payday lender
It might seem a good, neighbourly thing to do. But loans can be damaging as poorly tied aid. The alternative is subsidising direct Australian business investment.
- Carolyn Blacklock
As China’s premier leaves, Australia launches full court press in PNG
The Albanese government will help PNG with domestic security as it tries to ward off Chinese efforts to gain influence in Australia’s closest neighbour.
- Andrew Tillett
May
Fears of second PNG landslide and disease outbreak
The blanket of debris has become more unstable after rain and streams trapped between the rubble.
- Rod McGuirk
April
‘Extraordinary sacrifice’: Albanese, Marape end historic Kokoda trek
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Kokoda Track hike with his PNG counterpart James Marape gave him an appreciation of the sacrifices made by WWII soldiers.
- Matthew Knott
‘You’re the chief now’: Crowds greet Albanese at start of Kokoda Track
Long-time residents of Papua New Guinea said it was the most lavish welcome an Australian leader had received since Paul Keating in 1992.
- Matthew Knott
Albanese to visit the Kokoda Track for Anzac Day
The prime minister and his PNG counterpart James Marape are expected to attend a dawn service at Isurava on April 25.
- Tom McIlroy
March
- Opinion
- Foreign aid
What China gets right in PNG and Australia gets wrong
This former leader of PNG’s state energy supplier says we should take a leaf from the China playbook by using a “tied aid” model.
- Carolyn Blacklock
February
‘No choice but to get along’: PNG to Australia after China dalliance
During a historic address to parliament, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape said building up his country’s economy would help with Australian security.
- Andrew Tillett
January
PNG security talks with China rouse local anger
Canberra and Port Moresby are hosing down the prospects of Papua New Guinea striking a security deal with China.
- Andrew Tillett
From Cobar to Colorado: Aussie Tom Palmer’s rise to global mining CEO
He led a foreign raid on the nation’s top gold miner. But Tom Palmer is also the Cobar kid who wants Newmont to be the top gold pick for Australian investors.
- Peter Ker
Australian companies close operations in Port Moresby amid violence
Westpac, ANZ and Santos, which have sizeable presences in Papua New Guinea, have increased security and are considering whether to reopen offices.
- James Eyers and Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Updated
- Anthony Albanese
Fuel queues, soldiers patrol streets under PNG state of emergency
The rioting has caused a political crisis in the country and sparked calls for Prime Minister James Marape to resign.
- Updated
- Lewis Jackson, Alasdair Pal and Nick Squires
Bitcoin ETFs approved; PM calls for PNG calm; DP World tax row
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Updated
December 2023
Activist pressures weigh on Santos’ PNG growth
Slow work on financing the $US12 billion Papua LNG project come as ExxonMobil voices ambitions for further major gas growth tapping the Wildebeest prospect.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
PNG says it wants priority in Woodside Energy-Santos merger
The comments from Kerenga Kua, the country’s petroleum minister, came as the companies opened virtual data rooms ahead of several weeks of due diligence.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
New security deal with PNG to help check China
Australia will pump $200 million into law and order in Papua New Guinea, including training thousands of new police officers and hiring extra judges.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett
October 2023
Want to stand out from the crowd? Ditch your bag and get a bilum
Australian textile designer Caroline Sherman is making a difference by taking holdalls from communities in PNG all the way to the Oscars red carpet.
- Eugenie Kelly
Westpac to maintain Pacific presence, cancels sale of PNG, Fiji banks
The federal government is keen for Westpac to maintain its foothold in the South Pacific, as China’s influence in the region expands.
- James Eyers and Andrew Tillett
August 2023
How Fiji got a nasty lesson in Chinese authoritarianism
The Pacific nation watched in shock as Chinese security agents marched what it said were 77 criminal suspects onto a plane and flew them away for detention in China.
- Michael E. Miller and Matthew Abbott