On this month’s program, we will hear about the recently held Bougainville Chocolate Festival, the Cocoa Support Facility and other related Australian Government supported activities in the agriculture sector in the autonomous region of Bougainville. 

Also on the program, we will hear about the PNG MSME and Informal Sector Study which gathered insight from over 2600 PNG MSME owners on how best to support a better business enabling environment and increase economic diversity and opportunities for all PNG citizens. 

We also spoke to the PNG Labour Mobility Unit Director Hakaua Harry about PNG’s participation in the Pacific-Australia Labour Mobility scheme.

What a month September has been!

On Monday 16 September, PNG celebrated its 49th year of Independence. Just three days later, Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific, the Hon Pat Conroy MP officially launched the Australia and Papua New Guinea Development Partnership plan 2024 – 2029.

The first ever Teacher Expo was also held in Port Moresby which saw the launch of the Diploma in Teaching Primary

The Kokoda Track is significant for the people of Papua New Guinea and Australia.

During World War II, it was the site of fierce battles

Through the Kokoda Initiative Program, the Australian and Papua New Guinean government have partnered to sustainably develop the track region.

This month on AHC-on-Air we speak to the Kokoda Track

In the first week of July each year, National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee or NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia, to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.   

In this episode, we feature the activities the High Commission organised as part of this year's NAIDOC Week observance. 

The Papua New Guinea–Australia partnership is dynamic, multi-faceted and comprehensive.  

Australia is working with PNG to support its efforts to

In this edition, we look at some of the initiatives, aimed to foster growth and develop the economies of both PNG and Australia.

Once such initiative is the Revolving Fund, a grants fund Australia is supporting in partnership with Mama Bank, that aims at boosting agricultural exports in

Australia and Papua New Guinea have a strong security partnership – in traditional areas of defence, policing, border and maritime security, and also non-traditional areas of cyber security, climate change, gender-based violence and critical infrastructure.

March is a time to champion the power of women’s voices and drive positive changes. 

This year’s UN IWD (International Women s Day) theme is ‘Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress’ or simply ‘Count her In’.  

Australia invests over $100 million per year in Papua New Guinea’s health sector, through bilateral, regional and global programs. 

Australia does so to support the Government of PNG’s efforts to improve the health of its citizens, in line with the PNG National Health Plan, by focusing on three health outcomes: 

An educated population contributes to the economic and social development of a country.

In this episode, we hear from the AHC Education team about how Australia is working with PNG through the Partnerships for