1960 Papua New Guinean general election information

General elections were held in Papua and New Guinea on 27 August 1960. The 29-member Legislative Council consisted of the Administrator, 16 civil servants...

General elections were held in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea on 18 March 1961. Indigenous members were elected for the first time, although on...

The Papua conflict (Indonesian: Konflik Papua) is an ongoing conflict in Western New Guinea (Papua) between Indonesia and the Free Papua Movement (Indonesian:...

Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea is a province of the Anglican Communion. It was created in 1977 when the Province of Papua New Guinea became independent...

Indonesia's six easternmost provinces, Central Papua, Highland Papua, Papua, South Papua, Southwest Papua, and West Papua, which were administered as a single province...

(Committee Nasional Papua, CNP) led by Willem Inury, Papuan National Front (Front Nasional Papua, FNP) led by Lodewijk Ayamiseba, New Guinean Party (Partai...

(born 1960) is a Papua New Guinean politician. He has represented the electorate of Manus Open in the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea on two...

Poponawa (born 28 January 1960) is a Papua New Guinea politician. He has been a member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea since July 2007, representing...

Council of Papua and New Guinea was a legislative body in Papua New Guinea between 1951 and 1963. It was established by the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949...

This region is also known as Papua and was previously named Irian Jaya. The eastern half of the island is Papua New Guinea. Human habitation is estimated...

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Peruvian general election 2003 Georgian legislative election (followed by Rose Revolution) September 2003 Papua New Guinea vice-regal election (parliamentary...

Tony Aimo (born 24 August 1960) is a Papua New Guinean politician. He was a member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea from 2002 to 2012 and again...

Sir Pita Simogun BEM (c. 1900 – 11 April 1987) was a Papua New Guinean policeman, farmer and politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Council...

Julie Soso Akeke (born 29 August 1960) is a Papua New Guinean politician. She was the Governor of Eastern Highlands Province from 2012 to 2017. Soso was...

Kainantu is a town in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. It had some historical significance as an airstrip town during WWII. It functions primarily...

Pita Tamindei (c. 1918 – June 1968) was a Papua New Guinean politician. He served as a member of the House of Assembly between 1964 and 1968. Tamindei...

islands very close to the coast of mainland New Guinea belong to the Western Province of Papua New Guinea, most importantly Daru Island with the provincial...

no later than this date. The autonomous region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea will gain independence per an agreement made in 2021. The upcoming...

in a general election. ^ For two periods in this term of Somare's premiership Sam Abal was acting prime minister. ^ See 2011–12 Papua New Guinean constitutional...

northeast of Australia. It is directly adjacent to Papua New Guinea to the west, Australia to the southwest, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the southeast, Fiji...

KBE (26 September 1934 – 16 January 2013) was an Australian-born Papua New Guinean politician. Sir Barry, a sixth generation Tasmanian, was born in Kimberley...

1957 – 1 July 1960) Following the creation of a republic by the 1960 Ghanaian constitutional referendum, Nkrumah won the presidential election and became...

Foreign Minister James Huang had attempted to buy Papua New Guinea's diplomatic allegiance. Papua New Guinea's foreign minister Sam Abal subsequently confirmed...

Act, which patriated the constitution from the United Kingdom. The Papua New Guinean constitutional crisis of 2011–2012 was caused by a disagreement, involving...

Although Dutch New Guinea was still rebuilding from the devastation from World War II and a volatile growing nationalism by Papuans, he was only given...

the much less developed economies of Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Western New Guinea, while also including medium-sized economies of...