The Papua New Guinea Rugby Football Union is determined to close the door on past problems and rebuild the game throughout the country.
In 2016 the PNG government and Rugby Union fell out over accusations of political interference, while the government still has possession of the Rugby Union's official home base, Bava Park.
A court-appointed mediator met with the two parties resulting in an agreement on a new interim board, which took effect earlier this year and comprised two members from each side and one independent.
The Interim board has already held several meetings and the independent chairman, Syd Yates, said everyone involved with rugby in PNG has had enough of infighting and wants to move forward.
"When we leave we want to make sure the new board will have a good sound structure, they have good relationships with the key stakeholders, including World Rugby and Oceania and all our key sponsors that have helped us before," he said.
"So they can then get on with a framework of managing the game and developing the game.
"We've got a lot of work to do - I mean we've gone nowhere for a couple of years - so if we can get those things in place for the new board it will be fantastic."
Members of PNG Rugby's Interim Board, including Ben Frame (2L), Syd Yates (C) and Michael Uiari (2R) met with World and Oceania Rugby in Sydney last week. Photo: Oceania Rugby
One of the consequences of PNG's administrative challenges has been the suspension of funding from ther governing body.
The PNG men's and women's sevens teams have both featured on the World Series this season, despite players and coaches being unpaid, while the men also competed at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.
The Pukpuks and Palais have also qualified for the Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco in July and Syd Yates admitted the Union's dire financial position means the teams' preparation is less than ideal.
"World Rugby has had the tap turned off and look the only real funding that we have available for us right now is (from limited sponsorship)," he said.
"We've got to tick the boxes to get back there and the funding will not help us prepare our teams to get to the (sevens) World Cup."
The PNG Pukpuks and Palais (pictured) will both attend the Rugby World Cup Sevens in July. Photo: Mike Lee - KLC fotos for World Rugby
"Any funding that we may be able to get will help us with the administration of the game, which comes under the grants because we have no employees at the moment, we have no money but we are working on it.," Yates said.
"Since the interim board has been established we are trying to establish those key relationships against and we need to show that we are working together, we need to show that we have a plan, we need to show that we're going to put good governance around everything.
"But unfortunately we have to do some of this in parallel because we've got the World Cup coming up in July and we're not going to have all those things in place."
A new constitution is being written and once completed local unions will have the chance to affiliate and take part in the next Annual General Meeting, which is tentatively scheduled for the first quarter of next year.
Syd Yates said the interim board has also taken action to address a couple of concerns that came about during the dispute.
"All the suspensions for affected unions have now been lifted so that means that all unions will still need to affiliate once the new constitution has been put into place," he said.
"So I think that's a good start so everyone is back to being equal.
"One other thing that's been a bit of an issue is it appears some players were not considered for selection in the past.
"That was a perception but that certainly was not the case from what I've seen but moving forward with that over time it's intended that a new selection panel and policy will be put in place, based on best practice from Oceania and World Rugby.
"...which will make sure that all players are given the opportunity to represent Papua New Guinea at international level."
The home of PNG Rugby, Bava Park, remains under government control. Photo: Facebook / Hon Justin Tkatchenko MP
