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MYSTERIOUS: Aust assault case against influential png minister ends - What They Never Told You

Jimmy Maladina's assault charge has been dropped but he still faces a restraining order application. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

A powerful Papua New Guinea cabinet minister has grinned after prosecutors withdrew an allegation he assaulted a woman near Bondi Beach.

Petroleum minister Jimmy Maladina, 58, was to face a hearing on Thursday over the contested allegation that he attacked a 31-year-old woman known to him in an eastern Sydney home.

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