Pocock warns NRL’s $600m PNG push risks undermining rugby in Fiji

Former Wallabies captain turned senator David Pocock says he disagrees with the funding plan set to channel $175m into rugby ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

PNG's much-wanted NRL team has had setbacks. Experts say history is on its side

A crowd of 12,000 watched as a symbol of Papua New Guinea's emerging nationhood ran onto the rugby league field for the first time in Port Moresby. Clad in yellow jerseys crossed with red Vs, players ...
Upstream

Kumul scrums down with PNG rugby

Papua New Guinea’s Kumul Petroleum has become the official gold sponsor of one of the gas-rich nation’s professional rugby league clubs. The state player is paying 3 million kina ($930,000) in total ...
The Conversation

Sports diplomacy: why the Australian government is spending $600 million on a new NRL team in PNG

As an active academic and practitioner, Stuart Murray receives funding from many organisations - including DFAT, The British Council, the Office of First Nations International Engagement. It has been ...