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6–9 September – Pope Francis conducts the first papal visit to Papua New Guinea since 1995. [12]12 September – Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape survives a vote of no confidence in the National Parliament.
The 2024 Papua New Guinean unrest occurred on 10 January 2024 in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby, later spreading to Lae and other cities. The unrest began following protests by security officers due to a sudden reduction in their salaries and prime minister James Marape 's tax deduction announcement which was later retracted.
20 February – A Rescue mission begins after a number of foreign citizens and local guides are kidnapped in a remote region of the country. [1]22 February – Kidnappers release a woman, whilst negotiations involving an Australian professor, and two others are still underway.
The 124 members of the National Parliament are elected from single-member constituencies by limited instant-runoff voting; voters are given up to three preferences, with a candidate declared elected once they received over 50% of preference votes. [2]
All executive power in the government is vested in the National Executive Council, which comprises all Ministers of the Crown. Unlike Australia, whose has a two-tier level of government between the Cabinet for political decision and the Federal Executive Council for purely formal decisions, the NEC is patterned along the precedent of the former as it makes policy decisions.
On 24 May 2024, a landslide occurred in Mulitaka, Papua New Guinea.By 7 June, 12 bodies had been recovered, [3] with thousands more buried and presumed dead, though estimates of the death toll vary greatly, with some estimating that only 160 had died.
20 April 2024, 12:45 National Football Stadium: Lae Snax Tigers: 21-14 Gulf Isou: 21 April 2024, 13:00 Lae Rugby League Oval Port Moresby Vipers: 2012 Waghi Tumbe: 21 April 2024, 13:00 National Football Stadium: Mendi Muruks: 28-20 Goroka Lahanis: 21 April 2024, 13:00 Lae Rugby League Oval Mt. Hagen Eagles: 16-16 Enga Mioks: 22 April 2024, 13: ...
Europeans—typically Australian gold prospectors—originally entered what is now Enga province from the east in the late 1920s, although the best-known exploration of Enga took place during the early 1930s when Mick Leahy and a party of men travelled from what later became Mount Hagen to the site of the future Wabag and then south through the Ambum Valley to what later became East Sepik.