Papua New Guinea's Petroleum Minister, Jimmy Maladina, was arrested in Sydney and charged with domestic assault.

Papua New Guinea's Minister for Petroleum, Jimmy Maladina, was arrested in Sydney and charged with domestic assault after allegedly assaulting a 31-year-old woman in Bondi. NSW Police were called to an Imperial Avenue home following reports of a domestic dispute and found the woman with facial injuries, believed to be from an altercation with Maladina. The woman is known to the 58-year-old minister.