Michael Chammas

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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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Straight Talk with Mark Bouris · Michael Chammas: Building the NRL's PNG Team, Leaving Journalism & Taking Opportunities · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

We've got 28 players to still feel our top 30, but the narrative has shifted.

And it's now our job to continue shifting that narrative to show people that PNG can be a place that you come, you enjoy your work, you enjoy your living there and you can have a good life.

And that's our, you know, that's our responsibility right now.

We're in our honeymoon period right now, aren't we?

Yeah, I don't know, to be honest with you.

Obviously, there's two parts to it.

There's the two years leading up, setting it up.

And then there's probably that two, three-year period where you're establishing the team.

And then there's that growth period of then sustaining, as I said to you, making sure it's Papua New Guinean.

First period, as I said, building.

Second period, making sure we're successful.

And then the third period is transitioning to it being self-sustainable in Papua New Guinean.

That's just admin, business side of things, coaching players.

So how long I'm there for, I have no idea.

But I'm loving every minute of it so far.

And I hope everyone's going to get a second favorite team out of this because

if you get the opportunity one day to go over there, you can't explain just what, you see it in their eyes.

Like I remember walking through the school we took Jerome Loy through an international school

Walk past the classroom and two young girls, they looked up and they just realized who they just saw.

They just started screaming.

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