Papua New Guinea
PNG student protests: Moulding the leaders of tomorrow
The images on our television screens last week of police firing live rounds into a crowd of students at the University of Papua New Guinea and injured students being carried into…
PNG shootings are not a Tiananmen moment
The reporting on the tragic confrontation between students and police at the gates of the University of Papua New Guinea on Wednesday reminded me of a comment…
Standoff in PNG: Students take on PM Peter O'Neill
Students at the University of Papua New Guinea are the latest in a long list of those in the firing line for denouncing the leadership of PNG’s seemingly impregnable Prime…
Why most in PNG don't care about Manus
The PNG Supreme court ruling last week that the detention of asylum seekers at the Manus Island was illegal did not come as a surprise. The PNG judiciary has always been fiercely…
Supreme Court ruling shows PNG needs new asylum seeker laws
It is timely to consider the legal implications of last week's ruling by the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea which held the detention of asylum seekers at Manus Island…
PNG's PM, police and fraud squad star in stranger-than-fiction saga
Papua New Guinea has an amazing tendency to tangle itself up in so many knots that it is often difficult to find any way to unravel the result.
PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill …
PNG's emerging leaders differ from their elders
I’m glad my paper, Papua New Guinea: Old Challenges for New Leaders, has triggered debate on The Interpreter about PNG’s future. I agree with James Batley and Stuart Schaefer that…
Australia-PNG relations: Decades of missed opportunities
Last year Papua New Guinea’s High Commissioner to Australia, H. E. Charles Lepani — who was one of the first Papua New Guinean heads of a government department at independence…
Big challenges ahead for PNG's promising young leaders
For the last three years, the Lowy Institute's Melanesia Program has hosted the Australia-PNG Emerging Leaders Dialogue under the auspices of the Australia-PNG Network, with the…
Analyses
The future of Papua New Guinea: Old challenges for new leaders
Papua New Guinea’s next generation of leaders should take a new approach in seeking to turn around negative trends in law and order, education, and health. Emerging leaders could…