Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape confirms his cabinet has formally approved a landmark defence treaty with ...

A landmark military treaty binding Australia and Papua New Guinea ensures domestic security and has little to do with ...

Anthony Albanese left PNG empty-handed last month, but the PNG cabinet has now signed off on a treaty that will see the two ...

The treaty was delayed after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his PNG counterpart failed to sign the pact last month, but ...

Papua New Guinea's cabinet has approved a contentious mutual defence treaty with Australia, the Pacific country's prime ...

After two weeks of delay, there has reportedly been a breakthrough on a major defence pact with Australia’s closest neighbour ...

Australian PM Albanese fails to sign mutual defence pact a week after also failing to sign security deal with Vanuatu.

Returning home without a PNG defence treaty would be another blow for Albanese after Vanuatu shelved plans to sign a security deal with Australia last week.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape will give China a high-level opportunity to scuttle PNG’s stalled “mutual defence” treaty with Australia, dispatching his Defence Minister to Beijing to ...

Plans for Australia and PNG to sign a landmark defence treaty that would exclude China have failed to eventuate amid suspicions of interference by Beijing.

A scheduling issue is one reason, but there are other factors that underscore why the defense treaty has yet to be signed.

A failure to sign the pact during the visit is another setback for Albanese after Vanuatu abruptly shelved plans to sign a ...