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15/11/2025

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08/11/2025

Just in from Kora 🇵🇬🌺

What Papua New Guinea Can Learn from the Cook Islands When a Jetstar passenger settles into their seat - flying from Bangkok to Brisbane...

13/10/2025

These ‘quiet’ benefits are often the most practical and nation-strengthening, even if they don’t make the front page.

On 6 October 2025, Australia and Papua New Guinea signed the long-anticipated Pukpuk Treaty , a landmark defence agreement that formalises t...

30/09/2025

🇵🇬 Kora has now turned her attention to what she calls ‘Pacific-led regionalism'.

“It reflects a future where Pacific nations are not recipients, but teachers — a reversal of colonial-era training.”

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13/09/2025

For readers and thinkers 👀

PNG: from independence to reunion | The Spectator Australia

Fifty years ago, Papua New Guinea was handed independence on a plate by its former self-proclaimed colonial mastas in Canberra. The date of independence was September 16, 1975.

07/09/2025

🇵🇬 Meet Kora - she makes more sense than most people I know!

By day, Kora works in a community knowledge hub - a place where people come to learn about technology, culture, language, and the wider worl...

25/07/2025

Ricky's Rules😮

"To this day, my family is told to uphold this basic rule permanently in the kitchen or household."

Do you agree with Ricky's Rules? Comment below

Papua New Guinea society is characterised by gender-specific roles, developed over thousands of years. These are not roles crafted by subver...