The NRL are just bending over to accommodate PNG, they will be the most favoured team in the competition by the NRL, the officials and the media when they eventually start. They will have more support from the powers to that be to succeed than Melbourne did when they first started.
OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295
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They did, but he should’ve been stood down from first grade for the rest of this season also.
Agree as soon as finals were out of reach he needed to be on bench or reserve grade to give our younger players the game time to develop.
A decade
A change of government will not make the slightest difference as keeping China from gaining influence with our closest neighbour will be very high on the agenda for all federal governments.People in PNG love rugby league and i doubt we could have could have got any better result in retaining our influence especially at what is a fairly meagre cost for our nation.
Jedi_Tiger
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O.N. I dont think they care less about that just the tax free implications
it might be interesting if they hold balance of power for coalition to form government, wonder how rock solid the tax agreement is not so much the team
Leck
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Whole PNG thing is a disgrace. The NRL is supposed to be a sporting competition, with this it’s become political. Instead of the secret cheating that goes on now, it’s an open book. If PNG were to manage a premiership in that tax free decade, then personally I will always consider it a gift rather than earnt.
I had already decided my membership of WT was ending this year, but I can promise even if I kept it going, it was ending for 28……….I refuse to pay money for a “fixed” competition.
I had already decided my membership of WT was ending this year, but I can promise even if I kept it going, it was ending for 28……….I refuse to pay money for a “fixed” competition.
Leck
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This is also on top of the $800m that we already assist PNG every year for infrastructure, education and health services.
Unfortunately there have been cases of embezzlement with the funds that we've provided by their officials.
clontarfkid
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True......a conundrum as they say!
Leck
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This money should be spent bolstering our armed forces and securing our borders. Once we’ve done that, we can help secure and invest further in PNG.
In saying that, any support we can provide to help them improve their communities, whether that’s doctors, teachers, scientists or engineers, would make more sense, rather than a politically subsidised football club.
pawsandclaws1
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As I wrote, the tax-free deal is a PNG govt initiative.
clontarfkid
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Which is why think he will move to uk
Chiefs ain't gonna happen..
Leck
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Maybe, however, that's not as I understand it.
There are over 20 communist state run companies operating in PNG that have put it in a debt trap, and ASIO is worried. These no interest loans have happened throughout Southeast Asia, Africa and the South Pacific.
The last three governments failed to recognise this, and now we're scrambling.
- China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC)
- China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC)
- China Railway Engineering Corporation (CREC)
- China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC/CRC)
- China Railway International (CRI)
- China Railway Construction Engineering Group
- China Overseas Engineering Company (COVEC)
- China Wuyi
- China Jiangsu International Economic and Technical Cooperation Group
- Guangdong Construction Engineering Company
- China Gezhouba Group
- CNBM Investment
- China Jiangxi International Economic and Technical Corporation
- Huawei
- Sinopec
- Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC)
- Zijin Mining Group
- Zhongrun International Mining
- Xinfa Aurum Exploration
- China Construction Science and Industry Corporation (CCSIC)
pawsandclaws1
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The $600m over ten years in part is to curb classical security threats. The BBC article at the link provides very detailed information about the agreements.
Australia-PNG rugby deal signed to curb China influence
Papua New Guinea will join Australia's rugby league in exchange for allegiance on security matters.
www.bbc.com
Leck
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I think it's more complicated than that.The $600m over ten years in part is to curb classical security threats. The BBC article at the link provides very detailed information about the agreements.
Australia-PNG rugby deal signed to curb China influence
Papua New Guinea will join Australia's rugby league in exchange for allegiance on security matters.
We are building and establishing a safe living environment for players in what is essentially a compound, and we're helping to build their grassroots systems.
However, that coin does not include the tax free incentives that players get.
This also does not include the $800m that we provide to PNG every year, nor the cut that they will get from TV deals.
They're on a pretty good wicket.
LeichhardtTiger
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Pathetic!
LeichhardtTiger
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So basically Albo gave a Chinese-backed nation, PNG, $600m to fend off the CCP, which is already running the joint. Why do I think we have been hit with China's Belt and have fumbled the ball in the middle of the Road?
If he is promoting another club they could
But he isn't. He is promoting Pepsi.
