The three Commissioners who will lead the newly created Independent Commission Against Corruption were finally sworn in on 4 July 2023, and will now start work. This historic event comes more than two-and-a-half years after the legislation to create the ICAC was passed by Parliament.

Prominent lawyer Paul Paraka has been convicted of stealing K162 million from the State between 2007 and 2011. 

The monies were paid by the Department of Finance to companies owned and operated by Paraka as part of an even bigger fraud that was first exposed in a Commission of Inquiry which reported in 2011. 

Photo: Presentation of education and awareness materials to the Michael Somare library at the Universtity of Papua New Guinea - April 2022.

On 12th October ACT NOW delivered 1,000 copies of 34 different education and awareness materials and reports to the National Research Institute library in Port Moresby.

This marked the sucessful conclusion of ACT NOW’s program of materials distribution for 2022.

The IRC has signalled its intention to intensify scrutiny of the logging industry after it published a damning assessment of logging company tax evasion, transfer pricing and financial misreporting.