Tag: Australia
‘There must be clarity’ – PNG students protest over US defence deal
By Scott Waide and Lydia Lewis
University students in Papua New Guinea are protesting against the signing of a defence cooperation agreement with the United...
Timor-Leste is at the polls, here’s how Australia can support its democracy
ANALYSIS: By Melissa Conley Tyler and Andrea Fahey
Today is election day in Timor-Leste, when voters are deciding on 65 members of Parliament to represent...
OPM leader calls on Biden to take proactive role in ending West Papuan ‘holocaust’
By David Robie
Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed to US President Joe Biden for a “proactive role” in ending Indonesia’s “unlawful...
Human rights arguments have lost credibility over West’s double standards
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
At a time when the West has weaponised human rights, the United Nations body that promotes freedom of expression...
PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko steps aside over video row
ABC PACIFIC BEAT: By Marian Faa, Prianka Srinivasan and Belinda Kora
Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Minister has stepped aside after a widespread backlash to comments...
Resign call to PNG’s foreign minister over his ‘primitive animals’ slur
By Caleb Fotheringham
Papua New Guinea’s opposition has called on Foreign Affairs Minister Justin Tkatchenko to resign after calling critics of his trip to London...