Eric Tlozek
Eric Tlozek has been a journalist since 2003 and has worked for the ABC since 2007. He has worked in Alice Springs, Darwin, Brisbane and in the ABC’s Parliament House bureau in Canberra. Eric was also the ABC's video journalist in Ipswich for two years and has a strong interest in regional and community issues. He has covered a variety of rounds, including state politics, defence and environment. Eric tweets from @erictlozek.
Controversial copper mine on Bougainville hits roadblock
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The push to reopen a controversial copper mine on the island of Bougainville has suffered a setback, with opposition groups stopping the region's government from going to the mine site and signing a new agreement with landowners.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, community-and-society, activism-and-lobbying, bougainville, papua-new-guinea
PNG deports Catholic missionary assisting locals with logging legal fight
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Catholic missionary and lawyer Doug Tennent is deported by the PNG Government after he tried to help villagers who took legal action against a giant Malaysian logging company.
Topics: catholic, law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, papua-new-guinea
Government could pay compensation to almost 2,000 Manus detainees
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Almost 2,000 men detained by the Federal Government on Manus Island may receive compensation for mistreatment, in what legal experts say would be the largest human rights settlement in Australian legal history.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, laws, federal-government, australia, papua-new-guinea
Australian man missing off Port Moresby coast after boat accident
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A search-and-rescue operation is underway to find three men after their fishing boat capsized near Papua New Guinea's capital on Saturday.
Topics: missing-person, accidents, papua-new-guinea
PNG students demand justice for police shooting protesters
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University students in Papua New Guinea say they are still waiting for justice one year after they were shot at by police while protesting against Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, university-and-further-education, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, police, law-crime-and-justice, papua-new-guinea
PNG coffee industry under threat from berry borer beetle
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Papua New Guinea's coffee industry is crying out for help, after discovering an insidious pest in some of its most productive growing areas.
Topics: agricultural-crops, tea-coffee, rural, pests, pest-management, environment, papua-new-guinea
Could Blockchain improve PNG's low rate of financial inclusion?
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Papua New Guinea's central bank and the Australian Government are investigating how a new technology could help impoverished PNG villagers engage with banking, finance and the broader economy.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, consumer-finance, banking, industry, currency, money-and-monetary-policy, regional-development, computers-and-technology, papua-new-guinea
PNG's cash crunch saps colour from election campaigns
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Papua New Guinea's election campaigns are normally feverish and colourful, but tough economic times mean candidates are crying poor — and there are concerns this may damage the country's democracy.
Topics: world-politics, elections, papua-new-guinea, pacific
PNG election season shows off the stranger side of democracy
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It's election season in Papua New Guinea, which means it's time for colourful campaigns, rallies and outlandish promises by candidates.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, papua-new-guinea
AFP refuses to train PNG police in high-powered weapons
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Papua New Guinean police engage a private security contractor to give them firearms training ahead of next year's APEC summit after the Australian Federal Police deployed there refuse.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, police, world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, papua-new-guinea, pacific, australia
Asylum seekers told to leave before Manus detention centre closes
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Asylum seekers on Manus Island are told they must leave the Australian-funded detention centre so it can be closed, with an unnamed immigration official telling detainees they should "not leave it too late" to make a decision.
Topics: refugees, immigration, world-politics, government-and-politics, papua-new-guinea, pacific
17 shot dead in PNG prison breakout
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Prison officers in Papua New Guinea kill 17 men who escaped from a jail near the country's second-largest city, Lae.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, papua-new-guinea, pacific
Photos show bullets fired into Manus Island detention centre: Amnesty
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Human rights group Amnesty International finds the Australian Government downplayed the danger asylum seekers on Manus Island faced when the detention centre was attacked by soldiers from the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.
Topics: immigration, world-politics, government-and-politics, papua-new-guinea, australia
PNG anti-corruption fight on hold as judge waits for visa
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The Australian judge appointed to head Papua New Guinea's new corruption-fighting body is wondering why he has not been allowed to start work.
Topics: corruption, law-crime-and-justice, foreign-affairs, judges-and-legal-profession, government-and-politics, papua-new-guinea
Moves to reopen controversial Bougainville mine with Government backing (photos)
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The company which used to the run the controversial Panguna copper mine on the island of Bougainville is now trying to reopen it with the support of the island's Government.
Topics: copper, mining-industry, foreign-affairs, bougainville, pacific
Detainee who brought small boy into Manus centre upset by Dutton's comments
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The refugee who brought a small boy into the Manus Island detention centre a few weeks ago says he and friends only gave the child some food, and that he is upset by allegations from Peter Dutton that local people suspected him of sexual assault.
Topics: refugees, immigration, law-crime-and-justice, papua-new-guinea
PNG MP labelled 'discredited witness' by Dutton reinstated by court
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A Papua New Guinean politician, whose account of a shooting at the Manus Island detention centre was rejected by Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, is reinstated as an MP by the PNG Supreme Court.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, refugees, immigration, community-and-society, papua-new-guinea, australia
'Setting the record straight' on PNG's role in the Battle of Milne Bay
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A team of historians visit Milne Bay — the scene of a Japanese offensive during WWII — to "set the record straight" on the role of Papua New Guineans in the battle by recording the stories of those who remember it.
Topics: history, historians, community-and-society, world-war-2, papua-new-guinea
Dutton's account of Manus detention centre attack disputed by police
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Papua New Guinea police reject claims by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton that concerns for a small boy led PNG soldiers to attack the detention centre on Manus Island.
Topics: immigration, world-politics, government-and-politics, papua-new-guinea
Aussie park rangers helping PNG locals protect Kokoda Track
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Park rangers from Australia have travelled to Papua New Guinea to help local people maintain the famous Kokoda Track. The improvements will benefit the villagers who use it every day and the tourists who visit the region.
Topics: national-parks, conservation, environment, papua-new-guinea, australia
Manus Detention shooting signals rising tensions Analysis
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The shooting at the Manus Island detention centre may have stopped, but the tension that triggered it is likely to keep rising.
Topics: community-and-society, immigration, refugees, police, law-crime-and-justice, papua-new-guinea
PNG Defence personnel accused of shooting at Manus Island detention centre
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Personnel from a PNG Defence Force base near the Manus Island detention centre used high-powered weapons to fire bullets into accommodation buildings after a fight with asylum seekers, detainees say.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, government-and-politics, immigration, community-and-society, papua-new-guinea
Australian woman detained on Manus Island by PNG officials
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Papua New Guinea immigration officials detain an Australian woman who is visiting asylum seekers on Manus Island.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, immigration, government-and-politics, federal-government, community-and-society, refugees, australia, papua-new-guinea
PNG's electoral commissioner reassures church leaders on 666 writs
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Papua New Guinea's electoral commissioner reassures church leaders he is not asking the country's Governor-General to evoke an apocalyptic biblical prophecy.
Topics: offbeat, world-politics, christianity, papua-new-guinea, pacific
Refugee's film shot on mobile shows life inside detention centre
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Audiences around the world will soon have the chance see what life is like inside the Manus Island detention centre.
Topics: refugees, immigration, film-movies, papua-new-guinea, australia
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