At the end of last year, Anthony Albanese inked a deal with his Papua New Guinea counterpart, James Marape, to gift $600 million to PNG for a rugby league team to enter the Australian National Rugby League (NRL) from 2028. This is not exactly what Australian taxpayers have been crying out for during a cost of living crisis in Australia amidst a ballooning government debt which is substantially contributing to Australia’s stubborn inflation rate and relatively high interest rates.
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