Analysis - The most ambitious, complex and expensive expansion play in rugby league history officially came to life today, Nick Campton writes.

Anthony Albanese inked a deal with his Papua New Guinea counterpart, James Marape, to gift $600 million to PNG for a rugby ...

Cronulla Sharks star Toby Rudolf has cheekily suggested he may look to cash in ... be offered tax-free status as part of relocation. Many experts have been sceptical of the PNG team's inclusion ...

There has been plenty of smoke around Papua New Guinea's entry to the NRL, but that didn't make it any less striking as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, PNG ... cash isn't enough to secure big ...

Set to join the NRL in 2024, and base themselves out of Port Moresby, the PNG side will have the benefit ... be interest), especially with that tax-free money scheme they’ve got for luring ...

Great for PNG. What’s in it for Australia?” A third posted: “The PNG NRL team is purely a political move. Tax-free salary allows ... The $600m cash injection for PNG has been described ...

The Pacific island nation will officially enter the NRL in four years in a $600m deal that mixes rugby league with diplomacy. Australia will pay $600m to prop up the initial 10-year “rugby ...

The new PNG team – chairman Wapu Sonk said the name would be decided by the people of the Pacific nation – will be able to offer players and staff tax-free status as an incentive to relocate.

A PNG side at a trial match in Sydney in 2013 Papua ... "China puts in a lot of money into sport infrastructure… which is sort of what China is good at… [but] China is not going to be offering ...

In return, PNG has entered an agreement designed to stop ... with the NRL agreeing it will not ask for any additional money. The government is also making it clear it will not provide any ...