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.

An Australia-based PNG cricketer is confident the Pacific nation can become a powerhouse of tier two world cricket after its success in Hong Kong last month.

Born in Port Moresby to a Papua New Guinean mother and a New Zealand father, Chad Soper grew up on the New South Wales Central Coast.

Just outside of our solar system onboard the Voyager space probes sits the Golden Record, a 'message in a bottle' filled with songs and sounds from life on earth.

For the first seven years of her life, Robynne Clifton was confined to a hospital ward for treatment, hundreds of kilometres away from her family.

Can the Government reasonably argue, as Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has, that the amended bill around medical evacuations from Manus Island and Nauru would «trash» offshore processing? Political editor Andrew Probyn takes a look.

A secret Australian government body tasked with making decisions on medical transfers from Nauru discussed eradicating a longstanding requirement that medical care in offshore facilities must meet «Australian standards», according to internal documents.

Neville Devete is seeking a protection visa after the then-solicitor-general raised corruption allegations that led to what has been described in a court by police as PNG's biggest alleged fraud case.

A Port Moresby woman named Grace Gavera becomes the face of the endemic problem of domestic violence in Papua New Guinea.

The 9th edition of the popular Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art is an opportunity to better understand the region we live in.

Chinese officials announced they had signed «new agreements» with several Pacific Island nations at the APEC summit, but they refused to answer even basic questions about what was in them. Now the details of those deals are starting to seep out.

A senior Papua New Guinean journalist who was suspended after airing a story critical of government spending is reinstated by broadcaster EMTV.

Papua New Guinea public broadcaster EMTV succumbs to public pressure and announces the reinstatement of suspended journalist Scott Waide.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's face was pasted on billboards ahead of last weekend's APEC summit in Papua New Guinea. So how did he end up getting upstaged?

Chinese President Xi Jinping's face was pasted on billboards ahead of last weekend's APEC summit in Papua New Guinea. So how did he end up getting upstaged?

Hundreds of members of Papua New Guinea's police and security forces storm parliament over what the ABC understands to be anger about not receiving allowances owed to them from working at APEC.

Manus Governor Charlie Benjamin hits out at Australia over plans to redevelop a joint naval base on the Pacific island, saying he's never been consulted on the plan that the United States is also backing.

Members of PNG's police and armed forces — understood to be angry about not receiving allowances owed to them from working at APEC — block streets around Parliament and appear to have barricaded the building.

While a new Cold War is not yet here, the lack of cooperation at the APEC summit is another worrying step towards a serious rift in global relations, writes Nick Bisley.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia was providing strong support to help bring agreement on communique at the APEC summit.

Deep divisions between the United States and China derail the APEC meeting in Port Moresby, with regional leaders failing to agree on a final communique for the first time in the summit's history.

The China and United States delegations clash over language relating to trade, meaning the summit leaders will not issue the traditional summit statement.

The Prime Minister Scott Morrison has joined the heads of Papua New Guinea, Japan, New Zealand, and US Vice President Mike Pence to announce a plan to connect 70% of PNG to electricity by 2020 and to the whole country by 2030.

Four officials forced their way into Rimbink Pato's office after being repeatedly denied a meeting to discuss the wording of the final communique of the APEC summit in Port Moresby.

Plans to host US warships at a redeveloped naval base on Manus Island will undermine China's plans to establish a military presence in the Pacific, says one analyst. Scott Morrison says PNG asked the US and Australia to get involved, as the countries vie for influence in the region.

When it was an Australian territory, people born in what is now Papua New Guinea were automatically Australian citizens. Now, after years calling Australia home, many of them have been forced to prove their citizenship or potentially be left stateless.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison uses a major speech in front of regional leaders to warn the US and China against a full-blown trade war as the geopolitical contest between the two great powers intensifies.

The Prime Minister has promoted free trade and open markets, saying the stalled Trans Pacific Partnership still remains a possibility.

It is not yet known how much US money will be pumped into the Manus base, but Vice-President Mike Pence says the Trump administration wants to «protect the sovereignty and maritime routes of Pacific Island nations».

The US Vice President Mike Pence has announced the US will partner with Australia and Papua New Guinea to redevelop the dilapidated Lombrum naval base on Manus Island.

Chinese authorities deny media entry to a Pacific leaders meeting with President Xi Jinping despite them being invited to cover it.

Papua New Guinea's Foreign Minister says the country will do all it can to ensure there are no conflicts between China and Australia during the APEC summit.

In 1942, 395 handwritten letters fell from the sky. By the time they were delivered, the Australian men who wrote them were dead.