If the bid to establish an NRL franchise in PNG is successful next month, discussions inside Suncorp Stadium’s Chairman’s Room will be remembered for saving it.
Like most high-end corporate suites, the Chairman’s Room at Suncorp Stadium is a fantasy land of fancy booze, fancy party pies and very fancy people.
The Maroons won 20-14, but now here they were, Freddy and Chook, chatting away like old friends. Magic Round: bringing people together. In August 2022, the Solomon Islands government accepted a US$66 million loan from China to allow telecommunications giant Huawei to construct 161 mobile phone towers.Rugby league diplomacy: Pacific Minister Pat Conroy presents PNG Prime Minister James Marape with a Queensland Maroons jersey in Canberra earlier this year..
Clearly fed up, V’landys used a Friday morning media conference to lash the government for its dithering — “This is D-Day!” he declared — while Conroy wasn’t in the mood to be bullied. Then there’s the Forbidden City, an extravagant $100 million compound to be constructed in Port Moresby for players and coaching staff to shield them from the violence and crime for which the sprawling PNG capital is notorious.
“Magic Round is like the Rugby World Cup for bogans,” one fan told me. “Or a Taylor Swift concert for middle-aged men.” Earlier in the week, Broncos prop Payne Haas and his younger brother, Klese, who plays for the Titans, were told their father,, accused of smuggling more than five kilograms of methamphetamine into Indonesia late last year. He could face the death penalty if found guilty.
Pegum also has business interests in PNG, including being a shareholder in Mayur Resources, which is building a cement works to service the construction of more than 60,000 kilometres of road through the country.
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