Papua New Guinea

Australia–PNG security agreement: A revamp for Pacific partnerships
Australia–PNG security agreement: A revamp for Pacific partnerships
The leaders of Australia and Papua New Guinea put pen to paper on a bilateral security agreement this month. Known formally as the Agreement between the Government of Australia…
Papua New Guinea: Learning the lessons of language
Papua New Guinea: Learning the lessons of language
Papua New Guinea is the world’s capital of linguistic diversity, with more than 10 per cent of the world’s living languages – but this diversity is endangered. Community after…
Digital dominoes: Australia’s strategic play in the Pacific
Digital dominoes: Australia’s strategic play in the Pacific
Pacific Island countries, with their sprawling geography, have been caught in a digital divide. Lack of critical, digitally enabling infrastructure slows down development progress…
Loans, not grants, already proving costly for PNG
Loans, not grants, already proving costly for PNG
Data on official development finance is hard to come by in Papua New Guinea. The Lowy Institute’s Pacific Aid Map fills some of the gap, this year revealing that loans (which come…
PNG’s fuel crisis to further calls for exchange-rate reform
Commentary
PNG’s fuel crisis to further calls for exchange-rate reform
Originally published in The Economist Intelligence Unit
Troubles and Puzzles: The 2022 General Elections in Papua New Guinea
Journal Articles
Troubles and Puzzles: The 2022 General Elections in Papua New Guinea
Originally published in The Journal of Pacific History 
Japan risks its reputation in Oceania with Fukushima discharge
Japan risks its reputation in Oceania with Fukushima discharge
Japan’s decision last month to begin discharging treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean from its destroyed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is fairly unpopular…
The US–Pacific Islands Partnership, one year on
The US–Pacific Islands Partnership, one year on
Last September, the United States made some big promises to Pacific Island Countries (PICs) at its first ever Pacific Leaders’ Summit. The brief follow-up summit scheduled to take…
Putting a PNG stamp on security
Putting a PNG stamp on security
Public attention in Papua New Guinea has recently been occupied by the PNG-US Defence Agreement and the stalled Aus-PNG Security Treaty. There is not much transparency around…
The Fix: We still really don’t know PNG
The Fix: We still really don’t know PNG
We’re asking contributors to put together their own collected observations like this one – and as always, if you’ve got an idea to pitch for The Interpreter, drop a line via the…