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NRL salary cap

Yesterday

Premier Roger Cook believes the NRL needs WA more than his state needs the NRL.

Cook’s message for V’landys: WA doesn’t need the NRL

WA premier says NRL brass must understand rugby league is a relative minnow west of the Nullarbor, and his government won’t bend over backwards to secure a team.

  • Tom Rabe and Zoe Samios

October 2024

WA Premier Roger Cook, himself a former Rugby player, is a supporter of an NRL expansion team based in Perth. Negotiations for a cash injection from the WA government are ongoing.

WA knocks back initial NRL funding request

The WA government has set up a taskforce to work directly with the NRL on brokering a deal for an 18th rugby league club.

  • Tom Rabe and Zoe Samios

July 2023

NRL chief executive Andrew Abdo and RLPA boss Clint Newton.

NRL players in Origin, season media blackout as pay war escalates

Players are expected to boycott pre-match, half-time and post-match interviews amid an escalation of a dispute with the league’s governing body.

  • Updated
  • Zoe Samios

February 2023

NRL on verge of $1.35b pay deal with players

The deal has emerged as one of the country’s biggest industrial disputes.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones

January 2023

World’s smartest prop ... Christian Welch

The unlikely players going into battle over NRL’s $1.3b wage deal

A team of player negotiators and NRL officials are preparing for a crunch week of talks over a record-breaking billion-dollar wage agreement.

  • Samantha Hutchinson and Mark Di Stefano

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