CORRUPTION is a deeply ingrained issue in the political landscape, particularly in Papua New Guinea. This is a result of a transactional relationship between voters and politicians, where elections ...

While Australia and China have very different approaches in PNG, both are in working primarily with political elites, while alienating the New Guinean public. The state of emergency in Papua New ...

PNG’s constitution allows a government a grace period of 18 months before a vote of no confidence can be brought to Parliament. Since 1977, every sitting prime minister has had to fend off threats of ...

An organization promoting democracy says last year had the worst decline in credible elections and parliamentary oversight in almost a half-century COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Last year had the worst ...

Politics is a rough and tumble game that local political experts and historians say is currently filled with anger, finger ...

"In 2024, the same year democracy levels hit their lowest point since The Economist's Democracy Index was created in 2006, ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Between 20 and 50 people have been killed in violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea, a United Nations official said Monday. The fighting started days ago and is ...

It marks the fifth challenge to Marape's leadership over a Pacific nation wracked by violence, instability - and a ...

Photo: Luis Villegas/The Sacramento Bee via ZUMA Press Wire To hear Democrats tell it, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. Maybe so. But as California attorney general, Kamala Harris purposely ...

Pope Francis is honoring the Catholic Church of the peripheries in Papua New Guinea. He is heading to a remote part of the ...

I'll answer the last question: I will not go to Paris; I will not go to Paris. As for the first question, you’ve touched on a ...

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, or International IDEA, said election credibility is threatened by turnout dropping and results are increasingly being contested.