The Australian government has signed a confidential agreement with Papua New Guinea, its second security pact in the Pacific in just under a week, in the latest move by the US ally to attempt to ...

Australian Strategic Policy Institute Senior Analyst Dr Malcolm Davis says the "main issue” that confronts Australia in its ...

Spending $600m over a decade on a Papua New Guinean NRL team is a stunningly good investment in Australia’s national security.

Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister says he wants the country’s entry into the NRL to usher in more streamlined visa ...

Star multi-code athlete Sonny Bill Williams has been appointed to a job in academia. Williams, 39, was inaugurated as a pro-chancellor of Malaysian Islamic institute Albukhary International University ...

A Papua New Guinea rugby league team will be shut down and Australian funding withdrawn if the Pacific nation breaks a security agreement.

The deal to establish a PNG team comes with a China “escape clause” for Australia that would let it terminate the deal without giving a reason until 2034.

Bought — had fun, counted — shed tears. Something like this can characterize the attitude towards Syria. The fact that ...

Lineup: 1. Australia, Nauru sign treaty on economy, security 2. UNICEF sets new target for Myanmar support 3. Aceh tsunami ...

At first blush, the December 8 announcement that Australia and Nauru have signed a security treaty offers something for both ...

“The Nauru-Australia treaty will strengthen Nauru’s long-term stability and economic resilience. This treaty is an agreement that meets the need of both countries and serves our shared interest in a ...

The Pacific is​​, as former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described in 2018, a region where “we have special ...