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Duncan Murray

PNG minister to fight domestic-violence charge

PNG minister Jimmy Maladina faced Sydney's Waverley Local Court over assault accusations. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Papua New Guinea's petroleum minister will fight an accusation that he assaulted a woman during a domestic dispute in Sydney.

Jimmy Maladina, 58, pleaded not guilty in Waverley Local Court on Thursday after being charged over the weekend with attacking a 31-year-old woman.

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