Ishmael Toroama’s life has been dominated by a single ambition. The president of Bougainville, an autonomous island that is ...

The asylum seekers were sent to PNG more than a decade ago under an offshore processing deal with Australia, which has since ended.

The PNG government stopped allowances last year ... but the payment dried up in 2023 amid the political tug-of-war. Convenor of the Refugee Action Coalition, Ian Rintoul, says advocates have ...

A PNG side at a trial match in Sydney in 2013 ... "People that talk about goodwill and who say sport and politics don't mix, that's the 20th century view," Dr Murray said. "For us, there's no ...

But of course, it is all about China. Those opposed to mixing sport and politics should regard it as a bargain should it prevent PNG from following the Solomon Islands’ mounting embrace of China ...