Michael Chammas
speaker
1,341 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Michael Chammas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's what I said to him from when I arrived.
People in this country no longer have to look elsewhere to achieve greatness.
They can achieve greatness here in PNG.
And that's what we want to do.
And in 10 years time, when everyone's saying, oh, it's tax-free, it's unfair.
Well, in 10 years time, if the mark of success is going to be whether or not we are sustainable on our own with PNG kids coming through the system without the benefit of that tax-free incentive.
I knew you were going to like that tax-free talk.
You have to.
Well, we've got the same salary cap, right?
And we haven't paid Jerome Luai less than what he's on at the Tigers.
We pay market value.
The NRL will not register that contract for
If I wanted to sign him, let's just say for argument's sake, he wanted to sign him for half that money because you deem that it's tax-free and he can make the same amount.
The NRL is not going to register.
It's the same.
The NRL is not going to register that.
So we're still paying for market value.
Yes, I understand the notion that the player is benefiting from it, which makes it more appealing for him to come to the Chiefs.
But you also have to have some sort of benefit for the player.
Because if this is as important as it is to the Australian government, the PNG government and the NRL to get it right, it needs to be a success.
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