Ishmael Toroama’s life has been dominated by a single ambition. The president of Bougainville, an autonomous island that is ...

The asylum seekers were sent to PNG more than a decade ago under an offshore processing deal with Australia, which has since ended.

The PNG government stopped allowances last year ... but the payment dried up in 2023 amid the political tug-of-war. Convenor of the Refugee Action Coalition, Ian Rintoul, says advocates have ...