The Hon James Marape MP, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, and Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Foreign Minister attended the welcome event for 2025's ANU Somare-Whitlam scholars, held at ANU on Monday 24th February 2025.
The Australia Awards PNG scholars were officially launched in Port Moresby in October 2024 and co-branded to recognise the important role that Great Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare and Gough Whitlam AC QC played in supporting PNG’s transition to independence in 1975.