Welcome to Australia Awards in Papua New Guinea
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Australia Awards in PNG
Australia’s international development assistance in Papua New Guinea helps promote prosperity, reduce poverty, and enhance political stability.
Australia Awards Scholarships are prestigious international awards offered by the Australian Government to the next generation of global leaders for development. Through study and research, awardees develop the skills and knowledge to drive change and help build enduring people-to-people links with Australia.
Applicants are assessed on their professional and personal qualities, academic competence and, most importantly, their potential to impact on development challenges in Papua New Guinea.
Applications are strongly encouraged from women, people with disability and those from the provinces.
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Australia Awards in Papua New Guinea
Returning Australia Awards scholars ready to effect positive change across PNG
From environmental engineering and education leadership to development economics and tropical animal science, the latest cohort of Australia Awards Scholarships graduates are both diverse and determined to make a positive difference across Papua New Guinea. Selected...
Australia Awards and ExxonMobil PNG team up to support PNG’s homegrown agribusiness skills
Twenty participants from four provinces of Papua New Guinea have deepened their agribusiness skills in the latest phase of a partnership between ExxonMobil PNG and Australia Awards that is developing PNG’s workforce and human capacity. The Australia Awards...
Sharing lessons, changing lives: two female PNG leaders tell their stories
Leadership takes many forms, from holding high office to positions of responsibility in communities, the workplace or family, and much more in between. Two Australia Awards scholars Janet Towaki and Paula Zebedee Aines (pictured above) are undertaking postgraduate...