Papua New Guinea

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• Ebola: health department rejects claims Australian medical teams ‘unprepared’

  22 Oct 2014:

  Medical chief claims Australia has not trained or readied health workers for rapid deployment in the event of an outbreak

• PNG says refugee resettlement deal to be revised due to lack of public support

  20 Oct 2014: Peter O’Neill tells Tony Abbott that a new policy on resettling people held on Manus will be taken to cabinet after lengthy public consultation

• Pacific Islanders blockade Newcastle coal port to protest rising sea levels

  17 Oct 2014: Pacific Climate Warriors’ group aims to draw attention to climate change and protest Australia’s commitment to coal

• Australian Catholic priest accused of child abuse preparing to leave PNG

  8 Oct 2014:

  Father Roger Mount has been accused of abusing boys in his care at St John of God institutions in Australia in the 1960s

• Boat missing off Torres Strait Islands arrives safely

  6 Oct 2014: Group of 10 on board a seven-metre longboat were blown off course and stayed the night in a Papua New Guinea village

• Bougainville president backs broader powers to veto mining projects

  6 Oct 2014: John Momis wants to give all landowners the right to stop mining development in the wake of plans to reopen the Panguna site

• PNG court rules police had no power to stop warrant for Peter O’Neill's arrest

  3 Oct 2014: Supreme court says police commissioner was not legally allowed to refuse to follow court order for prime minister’s arrest obtained by anti-corruption watchdog

• Bougainville landowners defend consultation over Panguna mine

  30 Sep 2014: NGO report claims there is widespread mistrust of discussions around PNG copper mine reopening, but Bougainville president and landowners say report is flawed

• Gay asylum seekers on Manus Island write of fear of persecution in PNG

  24 Sep 2014: Guardian Australia obtains six letters detailing persecution in Iran, detention centre abuse and fears about resettlement in Papua New Guinea, where homosexuality is illegal

• Manus security firm, G4S, responsible for February violence, says law centre

  23 Sep 2014: Human Rights Law Centre lodges complaint with OECD saying G4S had not been held to account for its role

• PNG plane crash kills Australian pilot and two others, says investigator

  20 Sep 2014: Three people, including the Australian pilot and first officer, are have been killed in a plane crash near Port Moresby

• Asylum seekers: PNG minister seeks to hasten resettlement from Manus Island

  15 Sep 2014:

  Rimbink Pato acts to break logjam by separating broader asylum policy from resettlement arrangements

• Opposition to Bougainville's Panguna mine 'higher than media suggest'

  15 Sep 2014: Survey, to be launched in Australian parliament, finds ‘near universal’ opposition to reopening of Panguna mine

• Immigration detention doctors ‘should consider boycott’, says MJA article

  11 Sep 2014: Ethicist co-author calls it ‘unacceptable’ that asylum seekers are subject to standard of care lower than elsewhere in Australia

• Beyond Scotland: four more potential independence referendums

  8 Sep 2014: All eyes may be on Scotland, but the UK vote isn’t the only referendum around. From Iraq to Papua New Guinea, potential nations are planning to make a break for independence. Homa Khaleeli picks four movements to watch

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