A Toowoomba paediatrician moves his young family to the highlands of Papua New Guinea as a practical expression of his faith.

PNG politicians are shrugging off concerns about Beijing's rising influence in the Pacific, as Chinese investors plan to spend $400m on a brand new Chinatown development for Port Moresby.

Australia's spy chief Nick Warner says the world is now more dangerous than ever. In a rare interview, he outlines six of the biggest threats to our security — and how we can combat them.

Australia's spy chief Nick Warner says the world is now more dangerous than ever. In a rare interview, he outlines six of the biggest threats to our security — and how we can combat them.

Behrouz Boochani

He won Australia's richest prize for literature, but Behrouz Boochani wasn't there to accept it. He was on Manus Island, more than 2,000 days after he arrived on the foreign land.

The family of a young man killed in a Newcastle brawl in 2005 is calling for police to reinvestigate the case, and for the man convicted of the murder to be released from detention.

A growing number of women and men are signing up to play Australian Rules in Europe and there are hopes a women-only league will be established in Switzerland in the next few years.

Desperate to see his Papua New Guinean wife and young son, who he had been separated from for nine months, Helal Uddin bought a boat in Indonesia and returned by sea to Manus Island almost four months ago.

The Prime Minister says Australian patients will be displaced if sick refugees are transferred to the mainland for medical treatment. But RMIT ABC Fact Check found the Government's claim on the medevac legislation to be baseless.

The babies born to men from the Manus detention centre face an uncertain future on the island, but the medevac bill could give them a pathway to Australia.

The babies born to men from the Manus detention centre face an uncertain future on the island, but the medevac bill could give them a pathway to Australia.

A play depicting life for detainees in offshore detention opens at the Adelaide Festival, after months spent trying to bring the work to Australia.

The medevac bill «doesn't even require» refugees and asylum seekers to be sick to come Australia, the Immigration Minister said. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates his claim.

The Government says the medevac bill will allow those held on Nauru and Manus Island to come to Australia without being sick. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

«We have a series of Australian governments that are guilty of crimes against humanity,» independent federal MP Andrew Wilkie recently told Q&A. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

«We have a series of Australian governments that are guilty of crimes against humanity,» independent federal MP Andrew Wilkie recently told Q&A. Is he right?

In the world of private security, enormous contracts are often awarded to companies through procurement processes with minimal due diligence. So how did a tiny, unknown company win $423 million in government contracts?

While the examination of security company Paladin continues in Australian Parliament, it has been quietly reducing the wages of some of its lowest-paid workers in Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby.

Hundreds of asylum seekers will undergo fresh screening as the Government prepares for an «influx» of medical transfers in the wake of the so-called medevac bill, Attorney-General Christian Porter says.

Christian Porter says the Government will check the backgrounds of those already assessed for their refugee status.

PNG is drawing a line under a controversial decision to buy luxury cars for a leaders summit by selling them off to the highest bidders, but now it's a question of who in the country has that kind of money and wants to spend it on a vehicle for which mechanical backup will be hard to find.

Asylum seekers in a Port Moresby hospital fear being discharged and losing what they see as a chance of settlement in Australia, after the medical evacuations legislation passed this week.

A 25-year-old Sudanese man critical of the «cruel and inhumane» conditions on the island says he will return there after two weeks in Switzerland.

What is clear at this juncture is that government policy on asylum seekers is not being driven by national security concerns, but rather by a desire to continue using them as a political wedge, write Mary Crock and Daniel Ghezelbash.

Cocoa growers in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu are set to benefit from a limited edition run of «volcanic» chocolate bars in Japan, released for Valentine's Day.

Papua New Guinea police are seeking the return of nearly 300 imported cars loaned to officials for driving world leaders around its capital during last year's Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation meeting, according to authorities.

Gifted patrol boats, a flurry of visits, and rumoured military bases. As China looms, Australia tries to woo back the South Pacific, write Natalie Whiting and Stephen Dziedzic.

A year after leaving Manus Island, Helal Uddin has good reason to want to go back. He's not alone, with a number of men relocated from the island struggling to adjust to life on the outside.

Charges of cultural misappropriation are levelled against a Chinese fashion brand after it uses images of Papua New Guinea dancers wearing elaborate costumes in a new marketing campaign.

The Kurdish-Iranian journalist's book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison was written on his mobile phone over multiple years and he hopes the win will «bring more attention» to the situation of asylum seekers in detention.

A petition signed by more than 1.8 million people calling for an independence referendum in Indonesia's West Papua province has been delivered to the United Nations — but what could it potentially achieve in the decades-old battle for freedom?

Cancer patients in Papua New Guinea are being turned away from treatment — and two years on, the country's only radiation machine remains out of service — in a situation doctors say is like being a gardener «but they haven't given you a spade».

Rare waterbirds appear to be increasingly moving into South Australia to escape dry conditions in northern areas of the country, according to wildlife experts.