Papua New Guinea

Without 11 Pacific Islander ministers serving parishes in north Queensland, the region's Anglican church would collapse, according to bishop Keith Joseph. 

A team of specialised doctors from Sydney has flown to Papua New Guinea to determine whether a rare set of conjoined twins can be surgically separated.

The foreign minister has used a major speech to celebrate the government's string of security agreements, saying Labor has helped build a region more stable and less deferential to authoritarian powers like Russia and China.

Beauty pageants remain serious business in the Pacific, but contestants are thinking twice before entering due to online bullying and discrimination.

The mother of a rare set of conjoined twins is begging doctors to explore other options after a Papua New Guinea hospital recommended against sending the infants overseas for surgery. 

Conjoined twins are extraordinarily rare, accounting for fewer than every two in 100,000 births.

The parents of conjoined twins in PNG who were hoping to send their babies to Sydney for an operation are now trying to go to Germany instead because Australia is too expensive.

Police say 21 people have been killed in a landslide in Papua New Guinea's highlands overnight, with bodies still being recovered.

Peter ToRot, a Papua New Guinea man killed in prison in 1945 for standing up for monogamous marriage at a time when polygamy was practised has been canonised a saint.

The boys, who are only the second known case of conjoined twins born in PNG, are expected to come to Australia for medical treatment.

Ethan Strange underlines his case for Kangaroos selection and Trai Fuller scores four tries in the Prime Minister's XIII 28-10 defeat of Papua New Guinea.

In their annual clash, the Prime Minister's XIII outclass the Orchids 50-0 in Port Moresby.

The landmark agreement commits both countries to "meet the common danger" in the event of an armed attack on either. With that, questions have been raised about Australia's role if the conflict in West Papua escalates. 

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape spoke with 730’s Sarah Ferguson about Australia's mutual defence treaty.

PNG and Australia formally sign a landmark new defence treaty, elevating the bilateral relationship between the two countries to an alliance and agreeing to "act to meet the common danger" if the other is attacked.

A landmark defence treaty between Australia and Papua New Guinea has been approved by PNG's cabinet, marking Australia first new alliance in more than 70 years.

China's presence in the Pacific is often viewed in the context of geopolitical tension and rivalry. But Chinese people have been in the region for generations — these are their stories. 

China has urged Papua New Guinea not to sign any deal that might exclude or restrict third parties from cooperating with the Pacific nation, as Australia scrambles to clinch a landmark defence treaty.

This week in politics, the prime minister returned home from the Pacific empty-handed and the climate debate continued to unsettle the Coalition.

Observers say Papua New Guinea's decades-long history of rugby league success and passion is on its side as it prepares for the next sporting leap into the NRL.