Papua New Guinea

The company said it had been unable to clarify the extent of this security risk and made the decision in the best interest of customer safety.

Andrew Anton-Mako, who is with the University of PNG and the ANU's Development Policy Centre, has welcomed the move by the government to drop the GST from basic food items. Audio

Papua New Guinea will join the NRL in 2028 and will become the competition's 18th or 19th team, depending on other franchise bids to come.

Prime Minister James Marape announced the privatisation at an investment conference in Sydney, saying, "we are sick of this monster that continues to burden us."

Police say bail amounts for several offences have increased, including noise pollution, domestic violence, ethnic clashes, possession of offensive weapons, consuming homebrew.

No figure valuing the bilateral agreement signed in 2023 has previously been released.

Transparency International PNG says a planned forestry development in Western Province appears to have got the go-ahead with no due diligence being done by the government.

Papua New Guinea's foremost tourist attraction, the Kokoda Track, reopened on Thursday afternoon after being shut down by landowners over a payment dispute.

When revealing the 2025 Budget, PNG Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey said, "it gives the police more than they asked for."

MP from Southern Highlands Province William Powi says politicians and bureaucrats are arming warlords and holding the nation's progress and security at ransom.

It comes as the ABC has unearthed details of the Australian business behind the project.

Household goods such as rice, tea, coffee, tinned fish, tinned meat, flour, chicken, and noodles, along with diapers, and sanitary pads, will no longer carrying GST charges.

Papua New Guinea has long had notoriously high levels of HIV infection, but in the past year numbers reached a record 6700 cases.

Last week, 13 opposition members defected, increasing James Marape's support in the House to over 90 out of 118 MPs.

The Papua New Guinea prime minister wants the Games to be brought back next year to coincide with the country's 50th anniversary of independence.

He said the government is planning reforms in Public Service, the Provincial and Local Level Government system, the Law and Justice Sector, and in the country's resource laws.

In a statement Rio Tinto, which has never committed to paying for the damage caused by the mine, said the MOU will include setting up a remedy mechanism.

Opinion - The almost unanimous view that things are heading in the wrong direction should serve as a wake-up call for Papua New Guinea's politicians.