Australian police drop domestic violence charge against PNG government minister in Sydney
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6W223)
Petroleum minister Jimmy Maladina was charged after police were called to a Bondi property in July 2024 and found a woman with facial injuries
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Australian prosecutors have dropped an assault case alleging a member of the Papua New Guinea cabinet assaulted a woman.
Petroleum minister Jimmy Maladina, 58, was to face a hearing on Thursday over the contested allegation that he assaulted a 31-year-old woman known to him in an eastern Sydney home.
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