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Wallace Sititi named All Blacks Player of the Year while snubbed forward also wins major award
World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year winner Wallace Sitit has added another accolade to his collection as he has ...
Australia to tackle Chinese influence with Papua New Guinean rugby team
A team from the Pacific nation will join Australia’s National Rugby League in a $400 million deal that deepens ties while ...
Papua New Guinea gains a team in Australian rugby league in diplomatic push aimed at curbing China
Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal announced Thursday linked to ...
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Departing All Black reveals key Scott Robertson call ‘weighed on me’ and contributed to shock exit
All Blacks fly-half Harry Plummer has revealed the reason for his sudden departure after he signed a deal with Clermont ...
Australia inks $600 million deal to create PNG NRL team
Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter V’landys has signalled a further expansion announcement could be imminent ...
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Australia backs PNG rugby team in move to thwart China influence
SYDNEY -- Australia and Papua New Guinea on Thursday signed a deal to establish a PNG rugby league club in Australia's national competition, a strategic agreement long pursued by Canberra as it ...
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Women’s sport to be front and centre in 2025
England will bid to defend their crown at Euro 2025 in Switzerland in July having lifted the trophy at Wembley in 2022.
Packing more than the usual muscle: PNG gets NRL's 18th team
Papua New Guinea is to be the home of the NRL's 18th team, with Prime Ministers Anthony Albanese and James Marape confirming ...
Can Charlotte Caslick and co help Australia win a Rugby World Cup? We’re about to find out
A group of Australia’s sevens superstars, including Charlotte Caslick and Maddison Levi, will switch to 15s next year to try ...
Sports diplomacy: why the Australian government is spending $600 million on a new NRL team in PNG
The Australian taxpayer will fork out $600 million for a new NRL team in PNG. It is a bold, expensive and untried sports diplomacy adventure.
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Papua New Guinea is granted a National Rugby League team from 2028
A team from rugby league hotspot Papua New Guinea will enter the National Rugby League from 2028 after officially being ...
Police continue search for rugby star Tom Voyce: Divers hunt river ford where ex-England wing was last seen trying to cross in Storm Darragh
Tom Voyce, 43, remains missing after his car was recovered from the River Aln, near Alnwick, Northumberland, which he had been trying to cross using a ford.