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R360

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Darren Kane Sports Columnist October 11, 2025 — 9.33am

ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys could well be a master of prescience and on the money. The nascent R360 rugby competition’s origin story could have come from a cereal box . Conversely, the planning behind it may be moderately more sophisticated.

But is R360 any wilder an idea than reckoning an NRL franchise ought to be domiciled in Port Moresby? Or did that idea come from a Corn Flakes box, too?

No offence, but I can’t calculate in my head the total amount of tax-free dollars you’d have to pay me before I’d choose to declare myself a tax resident of the independent state of Papua New Guinea.

Seriously, the idea – that rugby league players might need the carrot of tax-free money dang

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