Sydney

The game at Allianz Stadium will kick off at 2:20pm local time (3:20pm PNG time).

The Palais then play Canada at 4:40pm the same afternoon followed by the last match at night against France at 7:22pm.

Pools for the two day tournament:

Pool A: New Zealand, Canada, France, PNG. Pool B: Australia, Fiji, Ireland, Brazil. Pool C: Russia, England, Spain, USA.

The finals will be on Saturday.

This Saturday in Sydney will also see the men’s HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2016-17 take place.

The 40-year-old man was arrested at Sydney Airport on Thursday after arriving on a plane from London.

The alleged threats were made on social media, said Acting Deputy Commissioner Frank Mennilli.

Police also raided a house and a storage facility in Sydney, seizing documents and computer hard drives.

There was no remaining threat to the community, police said. However, they would not provide details of the alleged threats while the matter was before the court.

Treasurer, Patrick Pruaitch when delivering his speech today at the 14^th Mining conference in Sydney, Australia echoed these sentiments.

He said as interest rates in advanced countries normalised, global economic conditions will also improve and become more predictable.

He added that the 2017 budgets are highly conservative and do not take into account PNG’s increased economic resilience as well as the remaining potential for major new resource projects.

Treasurer Patrick Pruaitch said the construction might start in 2018 or 2019.

Speaking at the 14^th Mining Conference in Sydney this morning, Pruaitch said: “With the benefit of hindsight, I assure you we would have done things differently if we had known commodity prices were primed to fall. Instead we went for expansionary budgets.”

He said PNG’s total borrowings would have been far less in 2014 and 2015 when the government accounted for almost half the total debt raised during this five-year term.

This is a clear indication of the significant contribution made by the resources sector to the PNG economy.

President of the PNG Chamber of Mines and Petroleum, Gerea Aopi, said this today when opening the 14^th PNG Chamber of Mining and Petroleum Conference in Sydney, Australia.

Aopi said the statistic from the Treasury Department, revealed the need to continue to nurture this growth of the sectors if the country wished to continue to deliver further development opportunities for our people.

In an exclusive interview with Loop PNG, Juffa said we have facilities in the country that can facilitate the conference rather than Sydney.

“We now have facilities to host such conferences and the government must make a conservative effort to make use of the facilities in the country.”

He said such conferences will only make sense if it is being hosted in the country as the resources and landowners are in the country and can attend.

Opposition Leader Don Polye made this call when senior government leaders and mining and industries gathered at the 14th Mining conference in Sydney.

He called on the mining and petroleum companies, the government and other stakeholders to consider two agendas at the three-day PNG Mining and Petroleum Investment conference in Australia.

The three day conference offers a wide range of prestigious sponsorship opportunities and the large trade exhibition presents an exciting and exclusive opportunity to showcase your company to a very large audience.

More than 900 delegates and exhibitors from resource and service companies, government organisations, landowner groups, international investors and financiers, and aid organisations will be at the conference.

The annual Sydney conference will look at the continuous exploration and expansion exercises undertaken by resource companies in PNG.

In a media release PNG Chamber of Mines and Petroleum Executive Director, Greg Anderson, says despite the impact falling global commodity prices has had on the economy there still remains exciting resource prospects.

This is evident in the discovery and appraisal of significant copper-gold prospects in Kile Teke, which is west of Porgera Mine, and in the Star Mountains north of the Ok Ted Mine.

Winner of the inaugural Stella Runway 2016 Designer of the Year Award, Genevieve Igara-Falevai, the designer and founder of Wantok Clothing, showcased her label’s unique on 21 October.

An accidental fashion designer, Genevieve passed on a career in economics to follow her passion to create beautiful garments with a Papua New Guinean twist.

Starting her label in 2015, Genevieve has been awarded Miss Pacific Islands Pageant Project Runway 2015 and 2016; Stella Runway 2016 Designer of the Year; and dresser for Miss Papua New Guinea 2015 and 2016.