Contributors
Sean Dorney
Sean Dorney is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute. After reporting on the Pacific (with a particular focus on Papua New Guinea) for over four decades, Sean left the ABC in August 2014. During his time with the ABC he won a Walkley for his coverage of the Aitape tsunami and was both deported and awarded an MBE by the Papua New Guinean Government. He is the author of Papua New Guinea: People, politics, and history since 1975 and The Sandline Affair: Politics and mercenaries and the Bougainville crisis.
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18 Aug 2017 08:23The count in the final undeclared seat in Papua New Guinea’s 2017 national elections has resumed – more than five weeks after polling was supposed to end.
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15 Aug 2017 15:37The returning officer told us that as many as one in four intending voters in Talsea were being turned away, their names not on the list.
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11 Aug 2017 13:35The most surprising thing about the 2017 Papua New Guinea Election was the number of sitting MPs who were defeated.
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30 May 2017 11:58Sir Michael speaks of failings by Australia in PNG, a mistake he made after independence, and the controversial regional payments distributed by MPs.
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24 May 2017 13:54Reviewing an absorbing new collection of essays from an impressive array of former soldiers, military historians, and academics.
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04 May 2017 17:17The view of Australian ministers in the 1960s and leading up to independence in 1975 was that PNG was doomed to fragment – and quite rapidly.
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10 Jun 2016 12:41
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27 Apr 2016 14:00Once again, the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court has demonstrated its forthright independence