Sir Manasupe Zurenuoc OBE Kt made an enormous contribution to Papua New Guinea. During his career in public service he touched many lives and will be fondly remembered.
This two-part series is based on a speech given on 28 May 2018 at the Australia Awards Women’s Leadership Initiative at the Parliament of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
Law and order issues feature prominently in public debate in Papua New Guinea. Concerns centre around criminal violence and the limited effectiveness of state controls.
This paper demonstrates the international trend from the 19th century for smallholders to become predominant in the production of many agricultural commodities central to the global expansion of ca
This report covers the research undertaken in the Papua New Guinea highlands as part of the much larger
project, Do No Harm: Understanding the Relationship between Women’s Economic Empowerment and
The figure of the “good man” or “real man” is a common trope in Papua New Guinean and international campaigns to address HIV and AIDS, and violence against women. This figure is imagined as a perfect role model who is compliant with the directives of prevention slogans: a wearer of condoms, a faithful partner, non-violent and in control of everything from anger to sexual appetite, to alcohol consumption.
Papua New Guinea went to the polls in June–July 2017 for its
ninth general election since independence. Despite a record
number of women standing — around five per cent of the
Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste both have new coalition governments following mid-year parliamentary elections, but the processes that produced them and the outcomes could not be more dissimilar.
