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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Australia to strike new funding deal with Papua New Guinea to manage transferred asylum seekers

home affairs minister Clare O’Neil
A spokesperson for the home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, pictured, said ‘details of any support being provided to PNG are confidential, as they were under the previous government’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The Albanese government will strike a new funding deal with Papua New Guinea (PNG) to support asylum seekers after the country threatened to send them back to Australia unless a fresh agreement was signed.

In December 2021 the Morrison government struck a secret deal for about 75 refugees and asylum seekers to stay in Port Moresby after the regional processing centre at Manus Island was closed.

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