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PNG man kissed girl in 'cultural marriage'

A successful Papua New Guinea businessman believed he had consent under a cultural marriage when he kissed a 15-year-old girl, a Brisbane court has heard.

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‘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

The Guardian - AU

Australia, PNG inch closer to inking security treaty as defence minister tours the Pacific island nation

Richard Marles says he wants to significantly expand defence cooperation across the Pacific, starting with an "ambitious" bid to expand military ties and sign a security treaty with Papua New Guinea.

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Fighting off the bulldozers in the sacred kwila forests of Papua New Guinea

Villagers are pushing back against logging operations they say are encroaching on designated conservation areas

The Guardian - AU

'Govt will kill MSME', say NCR industry heads as deadlime to convert to PNG ends

MEERUT: Industry captains threatened a mass agitation and shift to Punjab as the Commission for Air Quality Management's (CAQM) deadline for NCR-based industrial units to convert to piped natural gas (PNG) or biomass expired on Friday.

The Times of India

PNG election violence: 90,000 displaced since May, 25,000 children unable to attend school

Fighting since country’s election in July has continued in the highlands, with women and children most vulnerable

The Guardian - AU

PNG minister, police hit out at Australia over extradition request for alleged fraudster and Cairns resident Samson Jubi

A Papua New Guinea government minister and top justice officials have revealed "extreme" frustrations with Australia, accusing it of harbouring a Cairns resident wanted for one of the biggest alleged frauds in the country's legal history.

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Police feared investigation into 'black flight' drug syndicate would be exposed too soon, court hears

A court has heard surveillance devices were used to monitor members of an alleged syndicate police believed were planning to import drugs from PNG, but they thought their investigation would be revealed following a drug bust in Melbourne.

ABC News

PNG gets high-level rugby league support

The Australian government has announced further support for rugby league in Papua New Guinea on the eve of an international football clash in Brisbane.

AAP

Turtle concern: Australian businessman denies threatening to sell Conflict Islands to China

Ian Gowrie-Smith says he was frustrated the Australian government did not respond to urgent funding request for turtle conservation

The Guardian - AU

Papua New Guinea cricket on the rise for men's and women's sides after years of struggle

Having once only existed on raw talent, passion and little else, cricket in Papua New Guinea has come far in the last 10 years.

ABC News

Penny Wong's diplomacy efforts in the Pacific begin to bear fruit with PNG security pact

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has announced it wants to establish a security agreement with Australia, welcome news for analysts wary of rising Chinese influence.

The Conversation

Women have returned to PNG's parliament for the first time since 2017. These two MPs are reigniting calls for better representation

Papua New Guinea's recent election has delivered women to parliament for the first time in years, prompting calls for further action to improve gender representation.

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Papua New Guinea hopes to have Australia security deal signed by end of year

Country’s foreign minister says China’s interest in the Pacific required a ‘strengthened’ PNG-Australia treaty

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Papua New Guinea wants security treaty with Australia - defence minister Marles

Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Wednesday Papua New Guinea had proposed a security treaty between both countries amid increasing tensions in the Pacific islands after China struck a security pact with neighbouring Solomon Islands.

The Guardian - AU

Penny Wong visits PNG and Timor-Leste as expert warns neighbours are ‘playing the China card’

Foreign affairs minister met PNG leaders on Monday in Port Moresby and will continue to Timor-Leste on Wednesday

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How two prime ministers made sure the PNG Hunters' long-awaited homecoming would take place

It took a conversation between the Australian and Papua New Guinean prime ministers to make sure the Hunters' Queensland Cup match against the Mackay Cutters in Port Moresby on Saturday goes ahead, writes Ali Almond.

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Mackay Cutters may play in PNG after all, QRL says, as Anthony Albanese offers assurance country is safe

A Queensland Rugby League spokesperson says the Mackay Cutters have verbally indicated that they will travel to Papua New Guinea to play the PNG Hunters.

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The Guardian - AU

Papua New Guinea’s undocumented children face ‘perfect storm of vulnerability’

Just 15% of children in PNG have their birth registered. Without a birth certificate, trafficking and exploitation are far easier

The Conversation

PNG elections show there is still a long way to go to stamp out violence and ensure proper representation

Despite Australia “stepping up” its relations with the Pacific since the election of the Albanese government, one of the notable things about the recent national election in Papua New Guinea (PNG) was the almost complete lack of coverage of it in Australian media – except for the odd report of…

ABC News

Farewell Fooey: Guardian of the ABC's PNG bureau, a friend to correspondents and an enemy of stray cats

Fooey faithfully served the ABC for more than a decade, officially as a guard dog, but with a side hustle as an emotional support animal.

The Guardian - AU

James Marape returned as prime minister in Papua New Guinea after fraught election

Marape, leader of PNG since 2019, defeated ex-PM Peter O’Neill in an election plagued by violence and electoral fraud

The Guardian - AU

Shouldering the weight of four million women: PNG elects its first female MP in a decade

Rufina Peter is just the eighth woman elected in Papua New Guinea. But the economist has been battling for her place in society since she was a child

The Conversation

Why Papua New Guinea urgently needs to elect more women to parliament

Counting is still underway following Papua New Guinea’s national elections, and there is still some hope that at least one woman might be elected to the country’s 118-seat parliament. At this point, Kessy Sawang may yet emerge as the winner in the Rai Coast electorate in Madang province. However, the…

AAP

PNG's Qld Cup match moved due to unrest

A Queensland Cup rugby league game between the PNG Hunters and Townsville Blackhawks on August 13 has been relocated due to recent unrest in Papua New Guinea.

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