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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Levels with Willie Mason & Justin Horo · NRL ROUND 10 PREVIEW: Willie GRILLS Michael Chammas on PNG, Would We Have Played At PNG vs Bears? · 7 May 2026 podcast

And we still don't know yet, right?

We're hoping there's a snowball effect.

And it sounds like there will be from the phone calls that we're having.

But it's a big moment for this country.

And it says to everyone...

that we're serious.

Yeah, it's important.

I said in the first press conference I did, I was sitting next to Prime Minister Marapa and I said, what we want to do is to show Papua New Guineans that

you don't have to leave this country to achieve greatness.

And you can achieve greatness right here.

The Hunters, look, to be fair, the Hunters are based here, but a lot of their good players are either going to the NRL, or they're moving a lot of them to London Broncos, the Super League.

So now they've got something they can actually come through the highlands, come through the villages, and they know the step.

And that's what we've got to set up.

The steps are you achieve greatness in this country with the chiefs.

And that's what we want to do.

Now, it's not going to be overnight.

You heard yesterday the logistical challenges this country faces in terms of just simply getting to Port Moresby.

You can't travel here unless you fly here.

Getting the best young kids, if you're taking them out of home at 15 from a village and they've never been exposed to living in a city, they can struggle.

So we've just got to make sure that we set it up and we just –

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