Group to search for celebrated US pilot’s fighter plane in South Pacific
Richard Bong downed 40 aircraft in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning before it crashed while being flown by another pilot A Wisconsin museum is partnering with...
Category : Papua New Guinea
PNG threatens to send refugees back to Australia unless it keeps funding humanitarian program
Exclusive: Papua New Guinea official accuses Australia of abandoning 70 men but government maintains it has no responsibility for them Get our morning and afternoon...
Australian professor and two local researchers held hostage in Papua New Guinea released
Foreign minister Penny Wong says all hostages, including a New Zealand-born Australian academic, have been freed Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has said all...
PNG hostage freed but Australian professor and two local researchers still held captive
Papua New Guinea police warn against circulation of fake news as negotiations continue with gunmen A woman who was taken hostage in Papua New Guinea...
More than 30 dead in tribal fighting on Papua New Guinea’s ‘island of love’
Another 15 people are missing after tensions between two groups boiled over into violence Tribal warfare on Kiriwina Island in Papua New Guinea’s east has...
‘Now is the time’: Richard Marles has met NRL to push for Papua New Guinea team
On visit to Port Moresby, defence minister says ‘it would be so meaningful’ for PNG to become National Rugby League’s 18th team Australia’s deputy prime...
‘Magnificent’ jellyfish found off coast of Papua New Guinea sparks interest among researchers
Veteran diver struck by ‘intricate detail’ sent footage to be uploaded to Jellyfish app Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get...
Smiles and unity at the Pacific Islands Forum mask tough questions shelved for another day
While leaders presented a picture of harmony, more vexing topics like Australia’s fossil fuel ambitions and China were kicked down the road Get our free...
Papua New Guinea to head to polls amid election violence fears
Election-related deaths plague lead-up to voting day in election closely watched by China and Australia What’s at stake in Papua New Guinea’s polls? Papua New...
New clues shed light on ‘pivotal’ moment in the great Pacific migration
Archaeologists say find of tools and bones changes our understanding of the Lapita people, the first to make landfall in Remote Oceania Get our free...
