Air safety investigators find two Air Niugini pilots ignored as many as 13 alerts before their plane crashed into a lagoon in the Federated States of Micronesia.

PNG authorities briefly confiscate Nick McKim's passport and threaten him with deportation after he attempts to visit an asylum seeker camp on Manus Island.

Letters of solidarity and more than 400 Aboriginal 'passports' will be delivered to Manus Island refugees as a group of boats set sail for Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea's police minister says communities have taken matters into their own hands in the «absence of law and order policing», after a brutal massacre targeting mostly women and children in the country's Highlands.

Papua New Guinea's police minister says communities have taken matters into their own hands in the «absence of law and order policing», after a brutal massacre targeting mostly women and children in the country's Highlands.

After the killings of at least 16 women and children in PNG's Hela Province, observers say modern guns are escalating tragedies while the police force is lacking.

Prime Minister James Marape warns those responsible that «I am coming for you» after at least 16 people, including pregnant women, are killed in a tribal massacre in the Highlands region.

A second volcano erupts in Papua New Guinea just days after the eruption of Mount Ulawun sent thousands fleeing, sparking fears that scarce humanitarian resources will be stretched even thinner.

More than 5,000 people have fled their homes after a volcano erupted in a remote part of Papua New Guinea's West New Britain, cutting a highway in three locations, local media report.

The Australian and Papua New Guinea governments agree to a limited extension of the contracts to provide services to asylum seekers, before the PNG Government takes over.

In the first parliamentary session since he was elected, Papua New Guinea's new Prime Minister James Marape says foreign companies like Paladin should not do security work in the country.

Almost seven months after Papua New Guinea staged the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, the majority of the controversial Maserati's it bought to ferry around VIPs are still sitting in Port Moresby.

An Indian man sets himself and a building on fire in the latest of a series of attempted suicides on Manus Island since the Coalition was re-elected in May.

The Papua New Guinea Government says it wants security company Paladin's contract to work on Manus to be terminated at the end of the month, despite Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton saying it would likely be extended.

Australia's election results have driven some men on Manus Island to despair. Now PNG officials are demanding Canberra take responsibility before the situation spirals out of control.

Former Papua New Guinea finance minister James Marape is elected by the the Pacific nation's Parliament as its new Prime Minister after weeks of political unrest.

More than 20 refugees living on Manus Island have attempted self-harm or suicide since the Federal Election, according to refugees and advocates who say the situation is now «out of control».

Peter O'Neill entered the prime minister's office surrounded in controversy and this morning he exited the same way, resigning after a mass defection of government MPs to the opposition.

Papua New Guinea is being engulfed in political turmoil; in the face of growing dissent, the Prime Minister has announced he is stepping down, but who will replace him, and how it will happen, remains very uncertain.

Peter O'Neill handed over his leadership to a former prime minister and current member of parliament, Sir Julius Chan, described by O'Neill as «a veteran leader and one of our founding fathers of our great nation.»

After seven years in the top job, Peter O'Neill says recent movements in parliament show a «need for change» as he hands over the country's leadership to Sir Julius Chan.

Papua New Guinea's Attorney-General orders a citizenship review of all MPs amid unsupported claims the PM holds an Australian passport.

The Australian birthing kit program sees groups of women get together to help at-risk mothers around the globe and is believed to have helped save nearly 300,000 lives.

Despite insisting it would have a majority, the Opposition bloc that is trying to oust PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill fell short of the numbers when Parliament sat.

Defectors are holed up in a Port Moresby hotel as they try to topple PNG's Prime Minister. But they have also ordered in comedians and musicians to keep them entertained as they work.

Support services staff for former Manus Island detainees say they were asked by their supervisors to change documents to make it appear they were fulfilling part of a $44 million Australian contract.

The ABC's PNG correspondent and video journalist Natalie Whiting writes of the difficulty of filming an Australian Story program about author and refugee Behrouz Boochani on Manus Island.

Billy Griffiths' Deep Time Dreaming, which charts a revolution in how we understand Australian history, wins Book of the Year at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

A team investigating a plane wreck in the Pacific Ocean believes it may be linked to the disappearance of famous aviator Amelia Earhart — but it's just one of a number of competing theories.

This teacher fought a seemingly shirtless, swashbuckling war in Vietnam, having what he calls «a boys' own adventure».

One fought a seemingly swashbuckling, shirtless war in Vietnam. Another was a child soldier bombed by the Japanese in the jungles of New Guinea. A third returned from East Timor, injured — he believes — by something designed to keep him safe. But a digger is a digger.

One fought a seemingly swashbuckling, shirtless war in Vietnam. Another was a child soldier bombed by the Japanese in the jungles of New Guinea. A third returned from East Timor, injured — he believes — by something designed to keep him safe. But a digger is a digger.

The remains of some of the thousands of Aussie soldiers still buried in World War II battlefields could soon be identified with the help of a new DNA test developed by researchers at the Queensland University of Technology.

When you think of places a comic book hero might turn up, the tribal war shields of the Papua New Guinea highlands are probably not what springs to mind.