A senior minister says Papua New Guinea has made a choice that could have a major impact on Australia’s role in the Pacific.

A potential deal that would see Australia provide $600 million to help set up an NRL side in Port Moresby includes an ...

How sincere is Australia when developing relations with countries of the South Pacific islands, a region Canberra always ...

The prime minister has refused to say what security guarantees Australia wants from Papua New Guinea in return for backing ...

Anyone who doubts Australia and China are in what Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong called a “permanent contest” in the ...

If Australia’s offer to support a National Rugby League (NRL) team in Papua New Guinea is contingent on PNG promising not to ...

For instance, Australia has delivered more than AU$2.5 billion, on top of the estimated $AU2 billion in aid, directly into ...

According to Benchmark, Chinese companies are expected to control 46% of the global cobalt mined supply by 2030, a 3% ...

Australia’s on-again, off-again affair with supporting a PNG-based team in the National Rugby League has taken another turn ...

China has become far more technologically autonomous in the ... Doubts over supposedly secure data centres in Asia are ...

The soft power, social capital, and shared stories the sport will stimulate are difficult to measure, but invariably will ...

Now Australia may be levering rugby cooperation with PNG to undermine normal economic and security cooperation between China and PNG. Behind the "olive branch" Australia extends lies its ...