South Sydney and Parramatta have lodged applications to have the All Stars clash counted towards the suspensions of Latrell Mitchell and Josh Addo-Carr.
Island Passage Exploration is exploring 261 square kilometres in the Crown Prince Range in Central Bougainville, only nine kilometres southeast of Panguna mine.
The deal to establish a PNG team comes with a China “escape clause” for Australia, while ARLC chair Peter V’landys has revealed another NRL license could be granted before Christmas.