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They are two different countries. Australia largly takes after England and American and is mainly populated by 'whites' (for the lack of a better word) where as Papua New Guinea follows nations like Singapore and Malaysia and is mostly populated by 'asians' (again for the lack of a better word). Australia is more modern and technologically advanced than most parts of Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea once belonged to Australia but declared independence in 1975. For more information mearly search both Australia and Papua New Guinea on wikipedia and compare for yourself.
The ocean is what separates australia and papua new guinea, and makes them two separate countries. Papua new guinea is not part of australia (e.g. like an island belonging to the country) edit. it is actually the torres strait that separates aus and png
they have dark colours, like Australian aboriginal people, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, and surrounding area.
northern Australia and islands around Australia like papua new guinea and also islands in the pacific
They live in a village like lifestyle but normal city life in the major cities with settlements by "squatters".
The Dutch and Portuguese began trading with the native Papua New Guinean people during the sixteenth century, but they did not colonise the country. Papua New Guinea was colonised when Germany took control of the northern half in 1884, and Britain took control of the southern half the same year.
Papua New Guinean people have a wide range of food and traditional drinks such as muli warra (drink), bulli beef, baked sweet potato, coconut cream, banana cake, banana pancakes, and many other foods.In Papua New Guinea there are many exotic fruits since Papua New Guinea has a tropical climate; some of the foods are:SagoTaro (Tapioca)CoconutsBananasPapayasPassion fruitFish and more sea foods.Yams
PNG was under australia's government, then they got their independence, the western half(west papua) was under the dutch government, instead of getting their independence like png, west papua was annexed by indonesia
Islands like Fiji ,Tonga ,New Caledonia ,Vanuatu ,Niue ,and Cook Islands .Big places like Australia , Papua New Guinea.
Oshen- Even though he's American he speaks Pidgin in his songs and uses a Papua New Guinean style of music.Justin Wellington- He's Australian but he lived in Papua New Guinea and speaks pidgin in some of his songs.Stanley Gene and Adrian Lam -both former professional rugby league players in England, and Lam also played in the NRL. Gene is currently the national coach of PNG.
Spambut the buttox is more like real ham Ive heard.
Melanesia is not a country, it's a region in Oceania that encompasses part of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Palau and New Caledonia. It does not have a flag.