PNG

Pat Conroy is off to Papua New Guinea where he will commemorate 80 years since the Kokoda campaign and strengthen bilateral ties.

The defence minister will discuss security in the Indo-Pacific in a series of high-level talks with his Japanese counterparts.

Papua New Guinea deputy prime minister and transport and Infrastructure minister Sam Basil dies after a car crash earlier this week.

The ADF has replaced a planning team of three with a group of five to support provincial health authorities responding to the COVID-19 in PNG.

Marise Payne said ministers agreed on a new $6 million package of biosecurity cooperation to assist PNG in controlling animal disease.

Reports emerge that Australia took hundreds of thousands of Pfizer for domestic needs from the COVAX stockpile for developing nations.

YouGov polling indicates overwhelming public support for the Australian government to help PNG stop the spread of COVID-19.

Australia wants to send 1 million vaccine doses to PNG – but without reliable electricity, how will they be kept cold?

This borderland region, wedged between Australia, Indonesia and the Fly River in southern PNG, presents risk to Australia of disease, illegal migration, drugs and gun smuggling.