Papua New Guinea
PNG: making sense of a massacre
It wasn’t long ago that Hela Province, in Papua New Guinea’s southern highlands, wasn’t a province at all, and hardly attracted the attention of the outside world. Now in just a…
Economic diplomacy: Guns versus butter, trade wars, and feeding PNG
Separation anxiety
A new call to split trade negotiation from diplomacy in Australia has once again underlined how the rise of China has unsettled traditional frameworks…
PNG: Marape’s blueprint for change in a fast vanishing honeymoon
Last week, the Australian government hosted Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape on an official “Guest of Government” visit, just two months after Marape assumed the…
Karida village killings: violence and the vulnerability of women
When so many external “experts” have contributed reflections on the violence last week in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province, there is, I recognise, a point where another outsider…
More women – with more chances – is key to PNG’s democratic future
The last few months in Papua New Guinea’s politics have been described as political “chaos”, “turmoil”, “upheaval”, “crisis”. The Australian newspaper even went so far to describe…
Australia’s aid in PNG: the need for a gendered approach
Gender equality is fundamental to human development. Papua New Guinea is Australia’s closest neighbour and biggest recipient of Australia’s bilateral development aid globally –…
Stepping out – and up – in the hot mess of the Pacific
Scott and Jenny Morrison stepped out into the humidity of Solomon Islands historic Henderson airport earlier this week to a legacy Pacific welcome, a mix of indigenous traditions…
The Pacific’s social politics
When the news broke that Peter O’Neill had finally resigned from PNG’s top job last Thursday, it spread instantaneously, lighting up mobile phone screens across the country.
It…
PNG: the Peter O’Neill legacy
The past two weeks have been an anxious wait and see in Papua New Guinea politics, and will continue to be so until such time as a vote of no confidence takes place, if at all.
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Waiting in Waigani: PNG in political turmoil
Two Port Moresby hotels have been the backdrop for the story of PNG politics this past weekend.
Members of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s government are perched in the Crown,…