Chewing betel ‘quid’ is culturally ingrained in PNG. But it is also linked to high oral cancer rates. A new project aims to improve early detection and reporting.
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A new study challenges conventional thinking about what drove the extinction of megafauna.
An underwater eruption has spread vast ‘rafts’ of pumice through the Bismarck Sea, hampering marine travel and wreaking uncertain long-term consequences.
A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.
At its best, the scheme changes lives – like an abattoir worker using savings to supply clean drinking water to his Vanuatu village. But exploitation remains rife.
Papua New Guinean soldiers were deeply embedded in the Australian army from 1940–1975. Today’s treaty can build on this legacy.
Albanese put the best face on the situation after his plan to sign a major defence treaty with Papua New Guinea while in Port Moresby fell through.
The new treaty will recognise PNG as a nation that makes its own strategic decisions, and ensure Australia is a partner that shows up and stays the course.
Papua New Guinea has played a pivotal role in some key moments in Australian history- including Federation.
PNG’s founding leaders didn’t just inherit Australian institutions – they reimagined how they could best suit the country’s belief systems and traditional culture.
This study is the first archaeological research undertaken on New Guinea’s Great Papuan Plateau. Among the finds are a number of sea snail shells modified for use.
Archaeologists once assumed that men were responsible for seafaring trade in Papua New Guinea. New research shows how women played a fundamental role.
Recent cases of polio in PNG have concerned health authorities. Here’s what to know.
We’ve left behind most racist terms used on the Kokoda Track – so why does ‘fuzzy wuzzy angels’ persist?
No Australian government has offered PNG a binding security guarantee in the past. The current government must address four concerns before signing on the dotted line.
A sophisticated machine called the LM-3032 Tape Restorator is helping give new life to decaying, decades-old cassettes.
The NiMe diet explained.
The US and Australia are increasingly attaching defence and security conditions to aid for Pacific nations – but that aid is not seeing any real progress on development goals.
Canberra has reinstated funding for 42 refugees and asylum seekers in the country, but given their deteriorating physical and mental health, it should be doing much more.
The ‘solution’ to conflict in PNG is often simplistic: more robust policing. That hasn’t worked – but there’s another approach that could.
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