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Papua New Guinea: Police launch operation to free kidnapped Australian university professor and researchers

A police operation was under way on Monday to rescue an Australian university professor and three researchers taken hostage in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Evening Standard

Australian academic taken hostage at gunpoint in PNG

Armed men have taken an Australian archaeologist and university students hostage in Papua New Guinea and are demanding a ransom from the two governments.

AAP

Good omen for Albanese during visit to PNG

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has paid a significant visit to Wewak on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea, with local lore suggesting one good omen.

AAP

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Australia and Papua New Guinea's future relationship evolving from shared colonial past

As the leaders of Australia and Papua New Guinea meet to forge a new relationship, it's worth remembering the shared history of our colonial past.

ABC News

Albanese pays tribute to late PNG leader

On his second day in Papua New Guinea, Anthony Albanese has visited Wewak to pay tribute to the nation's late grand chief and remember WWII fallen.

AAP

Security, visas and rugby league: Anthony Albanese unveils recipe for refreshing PNG ties

Mr Albanese's visit is the first by an Australian PM to PNG in four years.

The New Daily

Australia finalising new security pact with Papua New Guinea

The Bilateral Security Treaty with PNG comes after China signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands in April.

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Australia, Papua New Guinea agree to finalise talks on bilateral security treaty

A joint statement from the Australian and PNG leaders flags that the two nations will expand training and explore possible joint exercises under the treaty.

ABC News

Australia and Papua New Guinea pledge new security pact saying interests are ‘intertwined’

In contrast with security deal between China and Solomon Islands, the Australia-PNG agreement will be ‘public and transparent’, prime ministers vow

The Guardian - AU

Australia and Papua New Guinea aim to ink defence treaty by June

Australia and Papua New Guinea agreed to conclude negotiations over a comprehensive security agreement by April with hopes of a treaty signing by June following a meeting between the leaders of both countries in Port Moresby on Thursday.

Reuters

Australia finalizing new security pact with Pacific neighbor

The leaders of Australia and neighboring Papua New Guinea say they are finalizing a new security treaty — a move that comes as a challenge to China’s growing assertiveness in the region

The Independent UK

Albanese wants PNG-based team in NRL

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has used a major speech to call for a Papua New Guinea-based, Pacific Islander team to be included in the National Rugby League.

AAP

Morning Mail: Pope Francis praises Pell’s ‘wisdom’, Albanese’s PNG mission, battle of the sun kings

In today’s newsletter: cathedral in Ballarat to hold mass for late cardinal, PM aims for new security deal in Port Moresby and billionaires fall out over solar farm

The Guardian - AU

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese keen to strengthen ties in first visit to Papua New Guinea

Anthony Albanese will touch down in Papua New Guinea's capital today; the first Australian prime minister to visit the country in more than four years.

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The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese to push ‘family-first’ security treaty in address to Papua New Guinea parliament

Australian PM to call for ‘a swift conclusion to negotiations’ to treaty and say both countries should ‘work as equals with our fellow Pacific states’

AAP

PNG has 'appetite' for new defence deal

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will head to Papua New Guinea on Thursday, with counterpart James Marape showing he's ready for serious reform.

AAP

Security deal to dominate PM's PNG visit

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to Papua New Guinea, where sewing up a security deal could be a top-priority agenda item.

ABC News

Australia and Papua New Guinea to further defence treaty during Anthony Albanese's visit to Port Moresby

Anthony Albanese and PNG Prime Minister James Marape are expected to sign an agreement advancing a defence treaty between Canberra and Port Moresby, with Australia also to announce plans to open a visa processing office in the country.

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Albanese sees goodwill in PNG visit

Anthony Albanese will next week make the first visit to Papua New Guinea by an Australian prime minister since 2018.

ABC News

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to address Papua New Guinea's national parliament on two-day trip

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will address the Papua New Guinea national parliament and visit the resting place of the late Sir Michael Somare during a two-day visit next week.

AAP

Albanese to meet with PNG PM in January

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to Papua New Guinea in the new year for talks with his counterpart James Marape in the capital Port Moresby.

The Guardian - AU

Lachlan Murdoch’s whirlwind week: from US court testimony to Sydney Christmas party as elites rub shoulders

Global head of News Corp among Murdoch’s guests. Plus: Toni Collette reveals split with husband after Daily Mail photos

Reuters

Australia leader postpones Papua New Guinea visit due to COVID illness

Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has deferred a visit to Papua New Guinea until early next year after testing positive for COVID-19.

The Guardian - AU

Papua New Guinea can’t afford Australia and US standoff with China, James Marape warns

PNG prime minister tells west ‘your enemy is not our enemy’ as he tries to steer clear of geopolitical struggle gripping the Pacific

AAP

PM eyes security ties on trip to PNG

Australia is looking to clinch a security deal with Papua New Guinea when the prime minister visits for top-level talks on a range of issues.

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