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

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

Papua New Guinea has reportedly given a war pact with Australia the green light, with Canberra saying it was never a question of if, but when.

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

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

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

The Pukpuk defence treaty between Australia and Papua New Guinea is a logical progression of a tightly shared history that is right for the times. It is overwhelmingly to the benefit of both nations.

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.

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

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.