The Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has called on Australia's Seven Network to apologise and a journalist to be fired after it aired a story linking Australian aid money to corruption in PNG.
Monday's television report linked Australian aid money and a loss of nearly two billion US dollars to corruption.
Mr O'Neill says the report is the Australian media's most ill-researched, mischievous and misinformed piece of journalism covering PNG affairs.
He says no one has stolen Australian taxpayers' money because that amount of Australian money has never featured in any of PNG's budgets to date.
Mr O'Neill says Australian aid to PNG is exclusively administered in Canberra by the Australian government's foreign aid agency AusAID.