{"id":59889,"date":"2023-11-16T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/17\/refugees-in-png-told-they-will-be-evicted-next-week-after-australian-sponsored-housing-bills-not-paid"},"modified":"2023-11-16T23:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:00:18","slug":"refugees-in-png-told-they-will-be-evicted-next-week-after-australian-sponsored-housing-bills-not-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59889","title":{"rendered":"Refugees in PNG told they will be evicted next week after Australian-sponsored housing bills not paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian-funded humanitarian program has not funded housing, food and medical services for over a year, providers say<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Refugees and asylum seekers held by Australia in Papua New Guinea for 10 years will be evicted from their accommodation in a week \u2013 and have their groceries, medical and security services cut \u2013 because the bills for their accommodation, healthcare and food have not been paid for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the 64 men have been living without electricity, and some without food, for more than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/17\/refugees-in-png-told-they-will-be-evicted-next-week-after-australian-sponsored-housing-bills-not-paid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian-funded humanitarian program has not funded housing, food and medical services for over a year, providers sayGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRefugees and asylum seekers held by Australia in Papua New G&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,388,324,491,267,494],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-migration","category-papua-new-guinea","category-refugees"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59897,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59889\/revisions\/59897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}