SYDNEY – Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) have announced a deal worth A$600 million (S$517.7 million) to include a PNG team in Australia’s National Rugby League, but with a caveat that the ...

Papua New Guinea will enter the NRL in 2028 under a new $600 million deal with Australia unveiled on Thursday morning. In return, PNG has entered an agreement designed to stop China gaining a ...

Asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea will be stripped of government-provided housing and healthcare under a new deal that forces them to cover all living expenses with a single allowance.

The Pacific island nation will officially enter the NRL in four years in a $600m deal ... and PNG Prime Minister James Marape on Thursday. “Rugby league is the national sport of Papua New ...

The Australian government has signed a confidential agreement with Papua New Guinea, its second security pact in the Pacific in just under a week, in the latest move by the US ally to attempt to ...

Australia has struck a deal with the Pacific country that will see the NRL feature a PNG side from 2028, but it comes with a catch. Australia has agreed to financially support Papua New Guinea ...

Hull Kingston Rovers will hope that the seismic deal to admit a Papua New Guinea team into Australia's NRL can help their own pathway in the region. An NRL team will be based in Port Moresby and ...

“Rugby league is PNG’s national sport and PNG deserved a national team,” Mr Albanese said. “The new team will belong ... the reaction to the $600m deal was divided. One wrote on X ...

A team from Papua New Guinea will join Australian rugby league competition the NRL in a “diplomacy deal” that will cost the taxpayer £301m. It is understood the deal is part of an Australian ...

Papua New Guinea will get its own rugby league team. Prime Ministers James Marape and Anthony Albanese have maintained an unwavering optimism about the impact of this deal for so long that it’s ...