The PNG government stopped allowances last year ... but the payment dried up in 2023 amid the political tug-of-war. Convenor of the Refugee Action Coalition, Ian Rintoul, says advocates have ...

"The political timeline ends up in 2027," he said, citing the agreement to implement the referendum result sometime between 2025 and that date. It would be up to Papua New Guinea's parliament to ...

Papua New Guinea (PNG) will join Australia's national rugby league competition, after signing a deal that obligates them to ...

Terrible idea, politics before fans it seems,' added another ... AlboMP has outlaid $600 million over 10 years to fund PNG's entry into the NRL,' wrote another. It will be either the NRL's ...

In the latest bid by Australia to thwart Beijing’s efforts to build influence in the Pacific, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, PNG counterpart James Marape and ARL Commission chairman Peter V ...

“I just don’t feel the PNG arrival into our comp — maybe I will when it happens (but) I’m not excited by it,” Weidler said. “I feel like it’s a political move — I hate when sport ...

But of course, it is all about China. Those opposed to mixing sport and politics should regard it as a bargain should it prevent PNG from following the Solomon Islands’ mounting embrace of China ...

The asylum seekers were sent to PNG more than a decade ago under an offshore processing deal with Australia, which has since ended.