Inside rescue mission to free Australian professor taken hostage by armed bandits in PNG jungle

Bryce Barker and his colleagues were in Papua New Guinea conducting research into the history of human migration into Australia. (Supplied: University of Southern Queensland)

An Australian professor and his two Papua New Guinean colleagues have been released from captivity, more than a week after they were kidnapped in PNG's highlands. 

It comes three days after another woman who had also been taken was set free.