SYDNEY (AP) — A team from rugby league hotspot Papua New Guinea will enter the National Rugby League from 2028 after officially being granted a license. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and ...

Australia has made its biggest Pacific sporting bet so far. Will it deliver results for both Australia and the Pacific ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal announced Thursday linked to limiting Chinese influence in the South Pacific.

Former Wallabies captain turned senator David Pocock says he disagrees with the funding plan set to channel $175m into rugby league development in Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

Rugby league nines is among three sports dropped by Papua New Guinea for this year's Pacific Games ©Pacific Games The country will also not be represented in judo and sailing for the same reason. The ...

SYDNEY — A team from rugby league hotspot Papua New Guinea will enter the National Rugby League beginning in 2028 after officially being granted a license on Thursday. Australian Prime Minister ...

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