The law and order situation in Papua New Guinea continues to pose serious risks to travellers. Violent crime, including armed robbery, carjacking, home invasions and sexual assault, is common throughout the country, especially in urban areas such as Port Moresby, Lae and Mt Hagen.

Provinces of Papua New Guinea

Province-level divisions of Papua New Guinea
Category	Unitary state
Location	Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Number	22 Province-Level Divisions: 20 Provinces 1 Autonomous Region 1 National Capital District
Populations	(Provinces only): smallest: 50,231 (Manus) largest: 674,810 (Morobe)

U.S. Recognition of Papua New Guinea’s Independence, 1975. The United States recognized Papua New Guinea on September 16, 1975, when Robert D.

New Guinea is administratively divided into two parts: its western half comprises the Indonesian propinsi (or provinsi; provinces) of Papua and West Papua (collectively, formerly called Irian Jaya); and its eastern half comprises the major part of Papua New Guinea, an independent country since 1975.

From 1971, the name Papua New Guinea was used for the Australian territory. On 16 September 1975, Australia granted full independence to Papua New Guinea. In 2000, Irian Jaya was formally renamed “The Province of Papua” and a Law on Special Autonomy was passed in 2001.

Papua and New Guinea used to be separate entities, influenced and colonized over 250 years by the Sultanate of Tidore, Holland, Germany, Britain and Japan. In 1885 Germany annexed the northern coast ‘New Guinea’ and Britain annexed the southern regions ‘Papua’.

They were descendants of migrants out of Africa, in one of the early waves of human migration. Agriculture was independently developed in the New Guinea highlands around 7000 BC, making it one of the few areas in the world where people independently domesticated plants.

The indigenous peoples of New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, are Melanesians.

Following the passage of the Papua Act of 1905, British New Guinea became the Territory of Papua, and formal Australian administration began in 1906.

PNG is rich in natural resources and has enjoyed continued economic growth for well over a decade at the back of high commodity prices for its mineral resources and other natural resources such as timber and fishery. Yet the country still remains a poor third world country but why?2013年9月9日

Papua New Guinea is a country known for its abundant resources, warm people and a land where modern luxuries like electricity and running water are still not readily available to all

Papuans and Philippine Negritos are populations that inhabit Papua New Guinea and some of the surrounding islands in Southeast Asia and Oceania

Almost all of the land in Papua New Guinea is held with customary land title; less than 3 percent of the land is privately owned. Indigenous groups regularly work with the government and private companies to harvest the resources on tribal land

After European settlers arrived in 1788, thousand of aborigines died from diseases; colonists systematically killed many others. At first contact, there were over 250,000 aborigines in Australia. The massacres ended in the 1920 leaving no more than 60,000.

Today more than half of all Aboriginals live in towns, often on the outskirts in terrible conditions. Many others work as labourers on cattle ranches that have taken over their land. Many, particularly in the northern half of the continent, have managed to cling on to their land and still hunt and gather ‘bush tucker’.

Forbes assessed Forrest’s net worth as US$4.30 billion on the 2019 list of Australia’s 50 richest people….This article may be weighted too heavily toward only one aspect of its subject.

Andrew Forrest AO
Alma mater	University of Western Australia

The Sentinelese have lived on their island for up to 55,000 years and have no contact with the outside world. In 1991 there appeared to be a breakthrough. When the officials arrived in North Sentinel the tribe gestured for them to bring gifts and then, for the first time, approached without their weapons.

First Nation is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples of Canada who are neither Métis nor Inuit. There is no legal definition for First Nation and it is acceptable as both a noun and a modifier

The word Indian came to be used because Christopher Columbus repeatedly expressed the mistaken belief that he had reached the shores of South Asia. Convinced he was correct, Columbus fostered the use of the term Indios (originally, “person from the Indus valley”) to refer to the peoples of the so-called New World.

Well, under the Indian Act, First Nations people do not own their own land, instead it’s held for them by the government. Because of this policy, First Nations people who currently live on reserve do not enjoy the same property rights as every other Canadian

Spiritual Beliefs All First Nations believed that their values and traditions were gifts from the Creator. One of the most important and most common teachings was that people should live in harmony with the natural world and all it contained

The Great Spirit is a conception of universal spiritual force, Supreme Being or God, and is known as Wakan Tanka among the Sioux, Gitche Manitou in Algonquian, and in many Native American (excluding Alaskan Natives) and Aboriginal Canadian (specifically First Nations people).

1) Poorer health

• Poorer health.
• Lower levels of education.
• Inadequate housing and crowded living conditions.
• Lower income levels.
• Higher rates of unemployment.
• Higher levels of incarceration.
• Higher death rate among children and youth due unintentional injuries.
• Higher rates of suicide.

You could get up to: $560 per year for a family without children. $427 per year for a single person without children. Plus up to $147 per year for each child.

For example, according to the 2016 census, Fort McKay in Alberta is one of the wealthiest First Nations communities in Canada with an annual average income of $78,916, well above the provincial average of $62,778