The magnificent tropical fjords on Australia’s doorstep

The magnificent tropical fjords on Australia’s doorstep

Tufi’s coastline is often compared to Norway’s fjords,but that’s before you feel the heat and the dancing and drumming begins.

  • byBrian Johnston

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A Kennedy daughter offers a hand to Pacific nations threatened by climate change

A Kennedy daughter offers a hand to Pacific nations threatened by climate change

In one of her last acts as US ambassador,Caroline Kennedy has sealed a deal to safeguard at-risk South Pacific cultural relics and artefacts.

  • byLinda Morris
Police probe PNG minister in $3 million detention bribe investigation

Police probe PNG minister in $3 million detention bribe investigation

Documents reveal the country’s former police minister is under investigation over suspicions of bribery.

  • byNick McKenzie andMichael Bachelard
Australia’s arm-wrestle with China is all over the billboards

Australia’s arm-wrestle with China is all over the billboards

Anyone who doubts Australia and China are in what Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong called a “permanent contest” in the Pacific needs to think again.

  • byRichard McGregor
The upmarket boutique hotel that floats to truly remote places

The upmarket boutique hotel that floats to truly remote places

In Papua New Guinea,there are places you can’t reach by road;where planes don’t land and big ships don’t sail.

  • byBrian Johnston
PNG’s Australian integrity chief faces his own corruption investigation

PNG’s Australian integrity chief faces his own corruption investigation

The Australian lawyer trusted with running Papua New Guinea’s new anti-corruption body faces allegations he tried to inappropriately gather more power into his position.

  • byNick McKenzie
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‘We’ve stuffed it’:Kokoda Track shut indefinitely,leaving tourists high and dry

‘We’ve stuffed it’:Kokoda Track shut indefinitely,leaving tourists high and dry

Local authorities are scrambling to find a solution to reopen the popular trail,which would usually be in the midst of one of its busiest periods of the year.

  • byMatthew Knott
Pope arrives in deeply Catholic Timor-Leste where crowds may reach 750,000

Pope arrives in deeply Catholic Timor-Leste where crowds may reach 750,000

His three-day visit will include an open-air celebration of Mass the Vatican says may include more than half the population of 1.3 million.

  • byNicole Winfield
NRL to test broadcast rights waters as streaming loophole appears

NRL to test broadcast rights waters as streaming loophole appears

The code is set to go to market for its next TV deal this year,seizing on anti-siphoning laws that allow it to sell digital rights to global players such as Amazon.

  • byChris Barrett
PNG minister steps down after woman’s alleged assault in Bondi

PNG minister steps down after woman’s alleged assault in Bondi

Senior minister Jimmy Maladina has been charged with allegedly assaulting a 31-year-old woman.

  • byEryk Bagshaw
Marriage of expedience:Politis,Bears in bed with Perth to push expansion case

Marriage of expedience:Politis,Bears in bed with Perth to push expansion case

The NRL’s expansion road map has taken a turn,with a Perth consortium hoping to leapfrog Papua New Guinea’s bid – and it’s got Nick Politis in its corner.

  • byAdam Pengilly