About Australia Awards PNG
Australia Awards PNG
Australia Awards Papua New Guinea (AAPNG) are designed to promote knowledge and leadership, and enduring ties between Australia and PNG. The scholarships aim to build a qualified workforce, fill critical human resource gaps, and support good leadership.
Every year, both the Governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea agree on priority sectors that will target key development areas. In PNG these include: agriculture, education, governance, health, law and justice, transport and infrastructure.
Applicants are assessed on their professional and personal qualities, academic competence and, most importantly, their potential to impact on development challenges in PNG.
Australia Awards Scholarships
Australia Awards Scholarships are prestigious international awards offered by the Australian Government to the next generation of global leaders. Through study and research, awardees develop the skills and knowledge to drive change and help build enduring people-to-people links with Australia. Visit the global Australia Awards site.
Equal Opportunity
Australia Awards are merit-based scholarships. We are committed to ensuring an equal representation of women and men and that people with disability and people living and working in rural areas are provided fair access to pursuing further studies under an Australia Award. For more information on AAPNG’s approach to inclusion and equal opportunity, see here.
Applications are strongly encouraged from women, people with disability and those from the provinces.
Find out about AAPNG study options
Australia Awards PNG Success Stories
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...