On 9 May, a senior inspector of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary was brutally murdered in suburban Port Moresby. His alleged assailants were a small group of drunken off-duty members of the PNG Defence …
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Australia’s ‘step-up’ program in the South Pacific may already be having an impact, at least in Papua New Guinea. The program was developed to enable Australia to work with other nations, including New Zealand, the …
Commentary on equipping the Australian Defence Force tends to focus on high-end combat capabilities such as frigates, fighter aircraft and armoured vehicles. Much less is written about the assets and infrastructure that support those capabilities. …
The Papua New Guinean government’s extraordinary decision to effectively nationalise the Porgera Gold Mine may open the door for the People’s Republic of China to step up its aggressive push to acquire mining interests in …
Australia will inevitably be called on to play a leading role in the economic and fiscal rescue package Papua New Guinea desperately needs. The amount required to prevent PNG from becoming a failed state is …