Australian health workers in PNG say vaccine hesitancy has become so extreme they've been threatened with violence if they bring doses into some communities.

There are calls to urgently establish a business travel bubble between Australia and Papua New Guinea, as companies raise concerns over the economic strain of international border closures.

New research suggests private security firms in Papua New Guinea are playing an increasing role in providing public safety, but remain largely unregulated.

Pacific airlines that struggled to make a profit before the COVID-19 pandemic have plunged further into economic turmoil, prompting calls for industry reform.

Research has found Australian-funded ethics training for hundreds of PNG bureaucrats had no impact on their behaviour.

As Papua New Guinea's COVID-19 vaccination rollout stalls, businesses are facing pushback to their efforts to immunise workers.

The main road from outlying villages to the provincial capital on Manus Island hasn't been repaired for decades, and lives have been lost as a result of not being able to access medical services. So now villagers have taken matters into their own hands with the help of a crowd funding campaign.

Amid growing social and health problems stemming from drug addiction, Tonga's Parliament is considering making serious drug offences punishable with death.

With the release of her long-awaited album ‘3’ singer-songwriter Ngaiire is putting her Papua New Guinean roots proudly and defiantly at the front and centre of her music. Ngaiire returns to Stop Everything in a conversation with BW covering music, motherhood, home and breaking free of industry expectations. BW + BL discuss The Chair, the Netflix show starring Sandra Oh as Dr Ji-Yoon Kim, the first woman of colour to chair the English department at prestigious (and fictional) Pembroke University, and the minor feelings the series engenders. Also: The Croods enter the pandemic discourse; Kyle MacLachlan’s Aussie accent; will The Wiggles really go broke for going woke? Show notes: Ngaiire: http://www.ngaiire.com/ Sandra Oh on The Chair: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/30/sandra-ohs-masterly-performance-of-empathy-in-the-chair Kyle McLachlan in hotel quarantine: https://twitter.com/Kyle_MacLachlan/status/1429920647564742667?s=19 The Wiggles Fruit Salad TV trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wII8eRBFiiw

Women in PNG are putting their lives at risk to end unwanted pregnancies. So is it time to review PNG's abortion laws?

PNG born singer Ngaiire bares all in her most personal album yet, as shares explore her identity as a PNG woman in Australia.

A recent court decision has cleared the way for what would be the first executions in PNG in 70 years, but there's disquiet in the community, particularly from the influential churches, which are opposed to the death sentence.

Sonia Paua underwent medical treatment that sounds on paper like some kind of medieval torture. But now that she can walk without crutches for the first time in her life, the 20-year-old says it was all worth it.

The Australian branch of international investment bank UBS is being asked to repay tens of millions of dollars to Papua New Guinea, after a royal commission in the country was told the bank «preyed» on the «poor country».

Five years before launching his swashbuckling movie career, Errol Flynn ran amuck in cities and towns along Australia's east coast during a six-month voyage from Sydney to New Guinea.

The Tokyo Games might be over but it's just three years to Paris 2024, when breakdancing will make its Olympic debut. For some Pacific nations, its inclusion may be their only hope for Olympic glory.

Time is running out for an Australian pilot to be paid the $AUD5.6 million in damages he is owed from the PNG aviation company, Hevilift. Bruce Towers was working for the PNG-owned company Hevilift in 2006 when his chopper crashed in the PNG Highlands.

A Townsville nurse is helping to dispel vaccine myths in Papua New Guinea as locals fear they will «lose their arm» if they have a COVID-19 vaccine.

PNG international Tommy Semmy is on trial with Newcastle Jets and hoping to become his country's first representative in Australia's A-League.

The spectacular Raggiana Bird of Paradise, which is Papua New Guinea's national bird, has been bred in captivity for the first time in 20 years.

Opponents of the country's dual salary system are urging Prime Minister James Marape to scrap it as part of his campaign to take back Papua New Guinea. Research demonstrates that professionals in PNG can be earning up to nine times less than expatriates employed to do the same or similar work.

PNG women get together in Sydney, NSW

Papua New Guinea authorities are looking to re-open the country's most popular tourism destination the Kokoda track to local tourists, a year after trekking was suspended.

Shark callers head into the sea in wooden canoes to beckon sharks and kill them. But a new mining practice threatens their ancient traditions.

Health officials in Papua New Guinea are desperately trying to get vaccination rates up after the delta variant was detected in the country. Natalie Whiting reports.

Amid surging COVID-19 cases, PNG has agreed to receive vaccines from both China and Australia. But the geopolitics tied up in the schemes have been hard to ignore.

Amid surging COVID-19 cases, PNG has agreed to receive vaccines from both China and Australia. But the geopolitics tied up in the schemes have been hard to ignore.

Shark callers head into the sea in wooden canoes to beckon sharks and kill them. But a new mining practice threatens their ancient traditions.

Shark callers head into the sea in wooden canoes to beckon sharks and kill them. But a new mining practice threatens their ancient traditions.

The construction of a major road in Papua New Guinea's Torricelli Ranges could threaten a critically endangered tree kangaroo species, locals say.

For the last 40 years, Mama Rosa Kepo has been helping people find love in PNG’s Highlands. Mama Rosa is a church deacon in Mt Hagen, but moonlights as a matchmaker for young people.

The family of an asylum seeker Reza Berati, who was murdered while in detention in Papua New Guinea, is suing the Australian government and security contractor G4S Australia.

Telstra is in discussions to buy the Pacific arm of mobile service provider Digicel, in a move widely seen as an attempt to counter China's influence in the region.

Telstra is in discussions to buy the Pacific arm of mobile service provider Digicel in partnership with the Australian government, in a move widely seen as an attempt to counter China's influence in the region.