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Leanne Jorari

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July 2022

  • Performers in traditional costumes and headdress welcome ministers and delegates for the 30th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministerial meeting in Port Moresby in 2018.

    The Pacific project
    Papua New Guinea election: what’s at stake?

    The results will impact not only domestic policy but also the wider Pacific and geopolitical landscape

May 2022

  • Scott Morrison speaks during a press conference at Sandalford Winery in Western Australia

    Australia news live
    Morrison pledges $20m for tourism; Shorten tests positive as 44 Covid deaths recorded – as it happened

  • Dorah Misirit, from Tufi, in Oro province, Papua New Guinea, shows the tapa face tattoos she got when she was nine years old.

    The Pacific project
    ‘Our designs are stolen’: the fight to keep sacred tapa in the hands of PNG’s Oro people

April 2022

  • Peter Hannam's electric vehicle in the high country between Cooma and Albury at sunset

    Guardian Australia Reads
    Leading the charge: road-testing Australia’s EV stations on a 2,800km round trip – Guardian Australia Reads podcast

    What are the pleasures and pitfalls of driving an electric car from Sydney to Melbourne and back? Guardian Australia’s economics correspondent Peter Hannam goes for a test drive
    Podcast32:08

March 2022

  • The stranded sailors were brought in to Honiara after their rescue

    The Pacific project
    ‘A blatant lie’: China and Taiwan fight for credit over rescue of sailors lost at sea for 29 days

    Both governments are claiming responsibility for rescue of nine Papua New Guinean nationals last month
  • Sylvia Pascoe, who will be running for election as an MP in the upcoming elections in Papua New Guinea.

    The Pacific project
    ‘It’s not a publicity stunt’: the push to elect female MPs to PNG’s men-only parliament

    Four female candidates have been put forward by political heavyweight Sir Peter Ipatas for seats in upcoming election
  • Simon Seboda, a fisherman Kikiri fishes in the shallow waters between the new land and the coast.

    The Pacific project
    ‘A strange phenomenon’: new island in Papua New Guinea prompts territorial dispute

    While many Pacific communities are facing shrinking coastlines, a newly-formed island has led to generational and tribal fights

February 2022

  • Bougainville's Panguna mine, which is is set to reopen 30 years after it was forced to shut amid a civil war

    The Pacific project
    Panguna mine at centre of bloody Bougainville conflict set to reopen after 30 years

    Local government hopes reopening of mine – once world’s most profitable – will support bid for independence from Papua New Guinea

October 2021

  • A nurse prepares beds for new patients at a makeshift Covid-19 hospital in Port Moresby.

    The Pacific project
    Mass burial to relieve overflowing Papua New Guinea morgue as Covid cases surge

    Follows attacks on Covid nurses in the country where less than 1% of the population is fully vaccinated
  • A health worker takes a swab from a man to test for Covid-19 coronavirus outside a makeshift clinic in a sports stadium in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

    The Pacific project
    ‘Crisis unfolding’ as Papua New Guinea hospitals hit by worst Covid wave yet

    Health authorities have been forced to turn a stadium into a makeshift hospital while elsewhere essential services are closing
  • A fleet of Maserati cars are seen during the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, November 17, 2018.

    The Pacific project
    PNG admits Maserati purchase was ‘terrible mistake’ as they go on sale at discounted price

    Fleet of luxury cars, purchased for the 2018 Apec summit in a move that prompted widespread outrage, has been put up for sale

September 2021

  • A sign telling people to practise social distancing in Bracknell, UK.

    Coronavirus live
    UK records 40 more deaths and 37,960 new cases – as it happened

    Thanks for following along – this blog is now closed. You can catch up with the latest coronavirus coverage here.
  • Victorian premier Daniel Andrews arrives at a press conference in Melbourne

    Australia news live
    NSW outlines reopening plan as state records 787 cases, 12 deaths; Victoria 705 cases, one death; ACT eases some restrictions – As it happened

    All today’s news as it unfolded
  • Medical workers at a drive-through Covid testing site in Port Moresby

    The Pacific project
    ‘A great loss’: tributes pour in for pioneering PNG female doctor who died from Covid

    Naomi Kori Pomat, the first female doctor in her province, died in country’s first government-confirmed death of a health worker from virus

July 2021

  • A fiberglass dinghy berthed on the shores of Peli Island in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. These boats are also called banana boats by the locals.<br>2ETAM6E A fiberglass dinghy berthed on the shores of Peli Island in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. These boats are also called banana boats by the locals.

    The Pacific project
    Bougainville health minister and family lost at sea after boat sinks off Papua New Guinea

    Six people missing after boat sank just 150 metres from Nissan Island, with lone survivor swimming 15 kilometres to neighbouring island

April 2021

  • Lucy Maino was stripped of her Miss PNG crown for sharing a TikTok video of herself twerking. She also served as co-captain of Papua New Guinea’s women’s football team.

    The Pacific project
    Miss Papua New Guinea stripped of her crown for TikTok twerking video

    Lucy Maino faced intense online harassment over clip in incident that critics say highlights misogyny in PNG

December 2020

  • Vale’s nickel processing plant of Goro in southern New Caledonia.

    The Pacific project
    Protests erupt in New Caledonia over proposed sale of major nickel plant

    Deal to sell Goro nickel plant to a consortium including controversial commodities trader Trafigura reignites tensions over independence

October 2020

  • Theonila Roka Matbob, the newly-elected member for Ioro, standing in the pit of the Panguna mine where polluted water has discoloured the land and river beds.

    The Pacific project
    'Deal with the disaster': the girl from Bougainville who grew up to take on a mining giant

    Panguna mine is often cast as the economic key to Bougainville’s potential independence, but young MP Theonila Matbob says her people, and their land, must come first

July 2020

  • The labour ward at Warangoi clinic in East New Britain Province. A leading gynaecologist has said women in PNG should not fall pregnant while the pandemic remains a threat

    The Pacific project
    Delay pregnancy for two years: Papua New Guinea doctor delivers coronavirus warning

    Fears over Covid-19 have seen pregnant women turned away from hospitals, leading to the death of at least one baby, as national army barracks go into lockdown

June 2020

  • Debbie Kaore, an international rugby player and boxer, has shared an image of herself after being allegedly beaten with an iron by her partner in a domestic attack.

    The Pacific project
    'Leave that lady alone': rugby star's domestic violence video sparks outcry in Papua New Guinea

    Debbie Kaore who has represented the Pacific nation in rugby and boxing shared a video of alleged attack from partner
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