Post-referendum Decision-making on Bougainville’s Future Political Status: Two Policy Statements

Abstract

The two speeches that make up most of this publication were presented as keynote statements in the opening session of the State of the Pacific Conference, conducted in Canberra, Australia, on 29 September 2022, by The Australian National University’s Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA). They present the respective positions, late in 2022, of the Papua New Guinea government (Go-PNG) and the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) on key issues arising in the post-referendum decision-making process mandated by the August 2001 Bougainville Peace Agreement (BPA) and Part XIV of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) constitution which gave effect to the BPA.