Over the last decade – from 2012 to 2021 – the media have reported many evictions of people from informal settlements in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG). I looked at a total of 114 media reports about evictions during this decade. Based on the media reports examined in this study, several of the mass evictions involved relatively large portions of this state land. Without reliable official data, my study of media reports of eviction stories between 2012 and 2021 provides some evidence of the extent of evictions in Port Moresby during this decade. Forceful evictions of informal settlements from state land in Papua New Guinea’s National Capital District’, on Friday 26 November 2021 at 1.30pm AEDT/12.30pm PGT.