New Zealand ended a three-match losing streak with a 35-23 Rugby Championship second-round win over South Africa at Ellis Park in Johannesburg on Saturday.
A last-minute try by lock Scott Barrett sealed victory for the All Blacks after a thriller, and may have saved the job of embattled coach Ian Foster.
Foster has been under fire after five losses in six matches ahead of the Johannesburg showdown, including a 16-point loss to Rugby World Cup champions the Springboks last weekend.
But a much-improved All Blacks side turned the tables after a thriller in which South Africa led by one point with six minutes remaining before conceding two converted tries.
New Zealand’s coach Ian Foster (C) embraces Aaron Smith as they celebrate after victory in South Africa in Johannesburg on August 13, 2022. Photo: AFPSource: AFP
New Zealand recovered from a poor start, with full-back Jordie Barrett knocking on within 40 seconds, to control the early stages.
South Africa suffered an early blow with only 10 minutes gone when groggy winger Jesse Kriel was forced to retire and veteran full-back Willie le Roux came on.
Fortunately for full-back Damian Willemse, there was no score as he sat on the touchline due to a yellow card while a sell-out 61,519 crowd roared on the home side.
The first points in an arm wrestle came on 25 minutes when recalled fly-half Richie Mo’unga slotted a penalty for the visitors.
His successful kick triggered a period of away dominance in which captain and flanker Sam Cane and hooker Samson Taukei’aho scored tries, the second of which Mo’unga converted.
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When New Zealand moved the ball wide, winger Will Jordan sent Cane over in the corner for his second try against South Africa.
Taukei’aho then used his strength to power over from close range and this time Mo’unga split the posts with his kick for a 15-point lead five minutes before half-time.
New Zealand’s lock Scott Barrett reacts against South Africa at Emirates Airline Park in Johannesburg on August 13, 2022. Photo: AFPSource: AFP
An indication of South Africa’s concerns was a series of the first-half substitutions with hooker Malcolm Marx, prop Steven Kitshoff and No. 8 Jasper Wiese introduced.
The hosts needed to score quickly, and they did with center Lukhanyo Am diving over and fly-half Handre Pollard converting.
Pollard had not missed a kick at goal in his last two Tests — against Wales in Cape Town and New Zealand in Mbombela — and he maintained his record in first-half added time.
Opting to kick for goal from the halfway line, his kick just made it and as the teams trooped off the field a 15-point New Zealand advantage had been cut to 15-10.
The second half became a thriller with South Africa finally edging in front at 23-21 when Pollard kicked a penalty on 68 minutes.
But intense All Blacks pressure led to tries from center David Havili and lock Scott Barrett and Mo’unga converted both to get the visitors back on the winning trail.
Wing Makazole Mapimpi was the other Springbok try scorer as Pollard accumulated 13 points from two conversions and three penalties.dl/iwd
In the backroom of an outback pub, a group of about 100 concerned locals have gathered to perform a rendition of the smash hit Blow Up the Pokies by The Whitlams.
Key points:
Residents in Alice Springs are protesting a plan for dozens of new poker machines to be installed in pubs and hotels
Iris Capital has applied to install 60 pokies weeks after buying up many of the town’s hospitality venues
There are concerns about the gambling and liquor industry’s ability to influence government decision-making
Assisted by the local choir, community members are making their voices heard over plans to roll out dozens of new poker machines in pubs and hotels across Alice Springs.
“I’ve turned up because… I work at the hospital here in Alice Springs and I see every day how many problems our people have,” one attendee said.
“We don’t need any more gambling in our community.”
Hospitality giant Iris Capital has applications in for 60 new pokies to be installed in four of its newly purchased Alice Springs venues, including several where there currently are none.
The Sydney-based company has already expanded its gaming machine empire, having added at least 115 new pokies at Lasseter’s Casino since purchasing the Alice Springs venue for $105 million last October.
Close to 100 community members attended the local pub to sing a rendition of “Blow Up the Pokies”.(ABC News: Xavier Martin)
Locals have taken up the fight, expressing concerns that adding more pokies will disproportionately affect some of the region’s most vulnerable residents.
A ‘perfect storm’
Anti-pokies campaigners have said the timing of the applications makes for the “perfect storm”.
In July, long-term alcohol bans introduced during the NT intervention in dozens of remote communities and town camps surrounding Alice Springs came to an end.
Frontline organisations, including the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, have said they have seen a spike in alcohol-related serious injuries in the weeks that have followed.
Frontline organizations have said the ending of long-term alcohol bans makes for the “perfect storm.”(ABC News: Xavier Martin.)
Meanwhile, the use of the cashless debit card, which limits welfare payments being spent on alcohol and gambling, is set to be scrapped by the Labor government.
Campaigner and former gambling addict Roxanne Highfold said there were already too many machines in Alice Springs, a town which grapples with some of the highest rates of poverty, alcohol abuse and violence in the nation.
“To be honest, I worry about my people using the poker machines and falling even into more debt, and also what the long-term impact that will have on the community,” she said.
Roxanne Highfold speaking at a community meeting about poker machines.(ABC News: Sam Jonscher)
“I would hate to see Alice Springs get to a point that every single pub has got poker machines, and that it takes away the recreational activities from the pubs, where families can go to enjoy a meal or enjoy other recreational activities.”
The decision on whether to approve Iris Capital’s applications rests with the NT’s Director of Gaming Machines, who, the government says, operates at an arm’s length from cabinet.
Gaming Minister Chansey Paech has been accused of “sitting on the fence” over the pokies plan, and has refused to comment directly on whether he has held concerns about the potential expansion.
Northern Territory Gaming Minister Chansey Paech is facing questions about more poker machines being installed in Alice Springs.(ABC News: Matt Garrick)
‘Cashed up’ companies in the gambling industry
There have long been concerns about the gambling industry’s ability to influence government decision-making through well-documented tactics such as political donations and lobbying.
Researcher Tony Brown has been providing legal assistance to members of the Casula community in south-west Sydney, where Iris Capital is in court making a similar push to expand its pokies empire despite pushback.
Tony Brown says the investment companies are opportunistic.(Supplied)
“We see these organizations moving in and their priority is unmistakably in terms of maximizing their profits, but we see very little government and legislative attention to the harm and consequences associated with the proliferation of pokies and alcohol outlets,” said Dr Brown.
Dr Brown, who has recently completed a PhD examining the regulation of alcohol and pokies across the country, said companies operating in the industry were typically powerful and politically connected, and tended to target low socio-economic communities.
“What we’re finding is that these cashed up, opportunistic corporations are really taking advantage of these desperate communities,” he said.
“They really are being made ripe for plucking.”
The Mercure Resort in Alice Springs is one of several venues Iris Capital has made new gaming machine applications.(ABC News: Xavier Martin)
Dr Brown said large gambling and liquor companies had over the decades “hijacked” law-making and regulatory processes across much of the country, flying in the face of politicians’ responsibility to work in the public interest.
“The role of government is to protect communities from outside threats and influences” he said.
“What we’re finding instead is that those industries effectively captured our democratically elected politicians and those institutions that they control.”
Across the Northern Territory, there is a cap of 1,699 pokies in operation for licensed venues, as well as caps for each venue.
However, no such caps exist in the NT’s two licensed casinos: Lasseters and Mindil Beach Casino Resort in Darwin.
Iris Capital chief executive Sam Arnaout says Alice Springs is “undiscovered from a business perspective.”(ABC: Samantha Jonscher)
As the overall cap edges closer to its limit, there has been a spike in the number of gaming machine applications made to Licensing NT from just one in the 2021–22 financial year to eight since July (four of which are from Iris Capital).
As a nation, Australia has more pokies per person outside of casinos than anywhere else in the world, and holds the title as the country with the world’s worst average gambling losses at about $1,000 per adult each year.
Investment in the Territory ‘welcomed’
The NT’s hospitality industry peak body has thrown its support behind Iris Capital’s applications, arguing the company was being unfairly targeted.
“We welcome investment in food, beverage, accommodation, upgrades right across the Territory, and yes, gaming services is part of that,” said Alex Bruce, the chief executive of Hospitality NT.
Alex Bruce has staunchly defended a plan to install 60 new pokies in Alice Springs.(ABC News: Terry McDonald)
“There’s a lot of problem gambling that goes on in unregulated community card game houses, in the streets, in the public parks.
“People can sit at home and bet online and lose their house – we never see any focus on that, it’s always on the pub with the light on.”
Mr Bruce said the Territory had some of the best gambling regulations, pointing to a number of recent changes to the NT government’s Code of Practice for Responsible Gambling, including a mandatory online course for staff working in the industry.
Iris Capital did not respond directly to questions about its business strategy or the potential impact of its plan for Alice Springs, but said in a statement the company sought to use its newly purchased venues to their full “capacity”.
“Iris will look to spend significant monies to reposition and activate the venues to operate to their capacity in all areas. This includes gaming,” the spokesperson said.
Alice Springs locals have organized several community events to push back against a plan to install 60 additional pokies in town.(ABC News: Xavier Martin)
THQ Nordic teased another South Park video game at the end of its digital showcase yesterday (August 12) in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios.
The reveal came right at the end of the stream, when THQ Nordic said it has 26 unannounced games still in development, which it then scratched out and reduced to 25 after showing the South Park Digital Studios logo alongside audio of South Park character Randy Marsh screaming “Hot hot hot hot”.
The exact moment in the stream can be seen below.
As of publication (August 13), it’s unclear what platforms this game will be on, or if it will be similar to other major Triple-A games in the franchise.
In recent years, South Park you have stuck to RPGs. 2014’s The Stick Of Truth was developed by Obsidian Entertainment in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios, while 2017’s The Fractured But Whole was developed by Ubisoft San Francisco.
However, a new video game on the televisionfranchise was mentioned by creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone back in 2021. According to that report, a “3D video game” was in the works but there’s been no indication yet if the two projects are the same. If it’s the same project as the one teased by THQ Nordic, it will be quite the departure from the previous two Triple-A titles.
South Park: The Stick Of Truth. Credit: Ubisoft
This same report mentioned a number of new ventures from Parker and Stone, which apparently include “a documentary series” and “a weed company.”
In other news, THQ Nordic has announced a reboot of classic ’90s horror franchise Alone In The Dark with the writer of ‘Soma’ and multiple ‘Amnesia’ games onboard.
Players won’t need to have played any previous games as it will be a completely original story, although “it does incorporate characters, places, and themes from the original ’90s trilogy, but fans of the series will find plenty that is familiar. ”
West Coast coach Adam Simpson has declared key defender Tom Barrass deserves to be selected in the All-Australian team after another outstanding display in a losing team.
Barrass received votes from all three Glendinning-Allan Medal voters for his performance at full-back, where he had 14 intercept possessions and three of his 12 marks were contested.
Having led a backline that has been under siege all season, Simpson said he deserves recognition.
“I’m campaigning now officially for Barrass to be All-Australian because he’s not just winning his position, he’s dominating it as a full-back. I think he was the highest-ranked player today again,” Simpson said.
“He’s just in the prime of his career. He’s a leader, he plays the game the right way and he’s got the balance between defending and going for his marks from him. All credit to him.
“He’s playing on the best forward in the opposition team every week and he’s not just holding his own, he is dominating. His leadership from him has been exceptional.
“We could have folded a lot worse than we are at the moment. There was that five or six-week period when we were down on personnel and we were getting touched up and I think he’s been part of the resolve that we’ve shown.”
Tom Barrass has dominated despite being under siege in defense. Credit: Jackson Flindell/The West Australian
Simpson said it was clear his team played with spirit and applied pressure, and he felt they played as well as they could.
He pointed to the club’s lengthy injury list which had Jamaine Jones (back) added to it during the game. Simpson admitted star ruckman Nic Naitanui faces a challenge to be available against Geelong after playing under duress in the latter stage of the season.
Fremantle ruckman Sean Darcy was best on ground after winning 56 hit-outs by himself, compared to West Coast’s combined 28. Simpson said Naitanui needed a break.
“He’s playing because the club needs him, so we’ve got to be careful and don’t put any unnecessary risk on his career or next year,” Simpson said.
Nic Naitanui is far from certain to play against Geelong in the last game. Credit: Daniel Carson/AFL Photos/AFL Photos via Getty Images
“He needs a good break, a good pre-season and he can come back next year ready to go. We’ve got to look at it (not playing him). We’ve tried to respect the season as best as we could.
“There’s been opportunities to maybe rest or shut down players. But to be honest, we’ve got probably 15 injuries at the moment. Some players are playing sore. I’m not whinging. It’s just the way it is.”
The Roebuck Bay Hotel is one of the Kimberley’s most well-known landmarks, with its Thursday night wet T-shirt competitions as popular among tourists as a sunset camel ride on Cable Beach.
The infamous watering hole has survived cyclones, fires, world wars, bankruptcies, economic recessions and a depression, and most recently a global pandemic.
The Roebuck Bay Hotel was established in 1890 and was one of the first buildings in Broome.(Supplied)
Now, it is on the market for the first time since 1985 as the current owners, the Coppin family, test the waters after a busy post-COVID boom in business.
The iconic pub is believed to have been the first building in Broome with flushing toilets and one of the first to have electricity.
And it has played host to brawls between indentured pearlers and the gross murder of a senior police officer in 1912.
For a brief period in the 1950s, patrons could even get a haircut at the bar while they sipped on a middy in exchange for a beer in return.
A dash of sin and debauchery
Indeed, ‘The Roey’, as it is affectionately known, has had a colorful 132-year history, which published Peter Coppin admits has involved plenty of “sin and debauchery”.
“It hasn’t changed in a long time. We still try and allow people to have fun,” he said.
“If you’re not having fun, you may as well go home.”
Bill and Agnes Ward were the proprietors of the Roebuck Bay Hotel from 1922–37. (Supplied: Broome Historical Society, Ward Collection)
The Roebuck Bay Hotel had the humblest of beginnings, built on a bush block that was bought at auction with a reserve price of just £20 sterling in 1883 on country belonging to the Yawuru people.
Edwin William Streeter, a pearl merchant of London, went on to open the establishment in 1890 after buying the block from James William Hope.
The new pub was made of little more than a few sheets of tin.
Beers for the pearlers
Streeter had identified a potentially lucrative business opportunity in supplying liquor to the hundreds of hard-working laborers servicing the then-thriving pearl shell industry.
Most of the workers had arrived in Broome from Japan, Malaysia and Manila, traveling thousands of kilometers to an alien landscape of bright red pindan and sparkling blue waters.
The Roebuck Bay Hotel is considered a ‘local’s bar’ but it attracts visitors from all over Australia and the world. (ABC Kimberley: Jessica Hayes)
After days at sea, they would seek refuge in the bars and gambling schools which lined the road now known as Dampier Terrace.
“The pearlers would come ashore and relax during the neeps,” Broome Historic Society member Ron Johnston said.
“Broome was the capital of the pearl shell industry of the world, which up until the introduction of plastics was the predominant button [material].
The Roebuck Bay Hotel has survived several devastating disasters including a fire in August, 1904. (The Daily News: Trove)
“Today, WA couldn’t do without royalties from the iron ore industry. In those early days it was pearl shell.”
The Roebuck was one of just two hotels in its first decade, but by the turn of the 20th century it was one of six.
“People love a beer and there was a quid in it so people built these little places for them,” Mr Johnston said.
“In the early days, pubs were probably just a couple of sheets of tin and a few poles, and people who sell grog.
“But those pubs have obviously disappeared.”
Today the Roey is the only original pearling-era pub that remains, with the others succumbing to the boom and bust waves of the local economy.
Locals enjoy a Sunday session at the Roebuck Bay Hotel in the 1980s.(Supplied: Broome Historical Society Collection)
A national treasure
The National Trust, one of Australia’s chief conservation organisations, describes the beloved local institution as “legendary” in a statement of significance.
“[The Roebuck Bay Hotel] has always been a social and cultural focal point in Chinatown,” the statement reads.
Its ownership has passed through the hands of successive proprietors many from faraway places with curious stories.
Most recently it has been owned and operated by the Coppin family, when Peter’s father Brian purchased the property in 1985.
Pearlers, locals and tourists have gathered for an ice cold beer for more than a century at the Roey.(ABC Kimberley: Jessica Hayes)
The younger Coppin, who grew up in and around the bar, describes the hotel as “the last piece of memorabilia which connects us to why Broome actually exists.”
“Pubs are probably the greatest place that captures living history,” Mr Coppin said.
“With every old pub being torn down or renovated to be something new and sterile you lose a piece of that history.
“But the history is not just in the bricks and mortar, it’s in the people, and it’s a time capsule of people new, old and everyone in between.
“You can go to museums, and you can see dummies, artifacts and replicas, but to walk into an old pub, that’s where you find real history.”
fun and scandal
The Coppins’ tenure has been characterized by equal parts fun and scandal including a ban on the wet T-shirt competition after a 16-year-old won the event in 2011.
The tradition was resumed two months later after its ‘immodesty license’ was reinstated.
It continues today, defining the #metoo era and changing social norms.
“Well, I always say it’s like an 80:20 rule, 80 per cent can’t believe it and have the greatest time and 20 per cent somehow can’t believe that it’s still going on and think it’s demeaning to women,” he said.
The Roebuck Bay Hotel before undergoing major improvements in the 1970s.(Supplied: Broome Historical Society, Jean Haynes Collection)
“Our biggest defenders of the wet T-shirt competition are actually women and most of them are in their 60s.”
Mr Coppin said the Roey had stayed true to some of its more sordid traditions while adding some new ones.
“We’ve still got skimpies. We’ve also had himpos or himpies,” he said.
“I don’t think we would have ever thought we’d have done a wet jockstrap, wet tradie or a wet drag queen competition but they’re now fairly prominent fixtures.
“You’ve got to try and keep true to your traditions and your heritage but at the same time you’ve got to try to change and roll with the times.”
Broome local Craig Godfrey has been visiting the Roebuck Bay Hotel for 15 years.(ABC Kimberley: Jessica Hayes)
Camaraderie and longevity
If you ask the regulars who frequent the infamous Roebuck Bay Hotel what the secret to the hotel’s longevity is, many will struggle to put their finger on exactly what brings them back to the bar stool.
Broome resident Craig Godfrey has been frequenting the Roey for the past 15 years, which he describes as a proud locals bar.
“[I love] the camaraderie with mates that I’ve been drinking here for years with,” he said.
Mr Godfrey said he had “too many memories” from his time in the pub, including “a couple of shockers”.
“What about the bar manager running around the street naked out the front… the accountant that was naked down the street and the police brought him back and said, ‘I think he’s one of yours’.
“There used to be a lot of that sort of stuff going on.”
It’s been over six years since the release of the Nintendo Switch. But the popularity of the hand-held console doesn’t seem to go down. Instead, the demands are increasingly higher than Nintendo’s current production rate. But it won’t result in a rise in prices.
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Nintendo is a Japanese multinational company that made a big name for themselves with their consoles and games. The Big N has always offered the best gaming experience, primarily hand-held gaming. Nintendo has developed many hand-held consoles like GBA, DS, 3DS, and the latest Switch.
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The Switch has been the most successful product that Nintendo has come up with. The Japanese video game company currently offers three Switch variations: the standard, the Lite edition, and the OLED display edition. Further, the prices differ for each version of the hand-held console.
Nintendo Switch prices won’t skyrocket
Nintendo Switch has been in a lot of headlines lately. The famous media outlet Nikkei announced that Nintendo wouldn’t release new hardware in the fiscal year. Further, the new hardware is meant to be the much-awaited Switch Pro, an advanced version of the current Switch.
According to sources, the reason behind this rumor was the shortage of components. However, the media outlet that first reported on this issue couldn’t correctly understand what CEO Shuntaro Furukawa meant. According to Shuntaro, they will keep selling the current three kinds of Nintendo at a reduced price for the Lite version.
Nikkei: there will be no new Nintendo hardware this fiscal year, which ends in March 2023. Not immediately clear whether that part of the article is from Nikkei’s own reporting or what Nintendo President, who Nikkei interviewed for the story, said. https://t.co/HJVqk9Kbef
Further, Shuntaro claimed that the Japanese company is not having trouble getting components. The problem is the increased demand, which exceeds their expectation. Moreover, the global pandemic affected them, like most businesses, as there has been a rise in the prices of materials and shipping.
But Shuntaro claims the increasing prices of materials and transportation don’t worry them right now. And they will continue to offer Switches at a reasonable price. he said, “In order to offer unique entertainment to a wide range of customers, we want to avoid pricing people out.” He also shared that the OLED version is less profitable than the other two Switch versions.
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JJ Spaun birdied two of the last three holes to shoot a two-under par 68 for a one-stroke lead after Saturday’s third round of the US PGA Tour’s St. Jude Championship.
Spaun tapped in to birdie the par-5 16th and holed a 17-foot birdie putt at the 17th then stood alone at the top after Austrian Sepp Straka missed a nine-foot par putt at the 18th at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee.
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The 31-year-old American stood on 13-under 197 through 54 holes with Straka on 198 after shooting 68.
British Open champion Cameron Smith of Australia fired 67 to share third on 199 with Americans Will Zalatoris and Trey Mullinax. Americans Tyler Duncan and Troy Merritt were another stroke adrift.
However, Smith had to cop some stick from fans as he walked the course.
The tournament opens the FedEx Cup playoffs, three season-ending events with a winner’s prize of $18 million.
Only 125 players qualified on season points and only the top 70 advance to next week’s BMW Championship, where the 30 qualifiers for the Tour Championship in Atlanta are decided.
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Spaun won his first PGA title after 147 tour starts in April at the Texas Open while Straka, who missed six consecutive cuts coming into this week, won his first PGA title in February at the Honda Classic.
Spaun began with nine pars before a bogey at 10, but sank an 11-foot birdie putt at the par-3 11th and overtook Straka with his closing surge.
After a birdie-bogey start, Straka sank a 15-foot birdie putt at the fifth hole and another from just inside 12 feet at the sixth to seize the outright lead, but he fell back with a bogey at seven.
Straka took the lead alone with a 16-foot birdie putt at the 13th and grabbed a two-stroke lead by sinking a six-foot birdie putt at 15, setting the stage for Spaun’s run.
Zalatoris, still chasing his first PGA Tour victory, was a runner-up this year at the PGA Championship and US Open and last year in his Masters debut.
“I played on the biggest stages in three majors and I felt comfortable in those positions,” he said.
“I haven’t gotten a win out of it yet. Eventually we will and hopefully tomorrow is it.”
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World number 14 Zalatoris, who turns 26 on Tuesday, has a PGA-high eight top-10 finishes without a victory this season.
“Today was awesome,” Zalatoris said of his 65.
“Tee to green was great and I rolled in a couple nice putts, so I just need to keep that going.”
Zalatoris split with caddy Ryan Goble last week and new caddy Joel Stock has read his putts the past 36 holes.
“It has been great,” Zalatoris said.
“He has been awesome. Obviously it has paid off. He’s doing a good job.”
Mullinax, who shot 66, won his first PGA title at last month’s Barbasol Championship.
He began the week 70th in points, the last spot to advance, but is in position to leap into the top 30.
“Been playing really well,” he said. “Just going out and sticking to the game plan.”
Duncan birdied four of the first six holes to shoot 67.
It has been 77 starts without a top-10 finish for Duncan since his lone PGA victory at the 2019 RSM Classic.
Rickie Fowler found water twice on the way to a quintuple-bogey nine on the 18th hole. He shot 72 to stand on 208, likely dooming his bid to advance in the playoffs.
A NEW begin in soccer was precisely what Millie Brown wanted to rekindle her love for the sport. After sitting on the sidelines for psychological well being causes final season, the proficient 21-year-old is again with new colors for season seven.
“It has actually been good going again to the preseason. It has been a giant change for me once more contemplating I’ve closed the season. However it was actually enjoyable and now I really feel like I am getting again on monitor. Brown, who moved to the Western Bulldogs within the low season, stated: lady.afl.
After being chosen as a father-daughter decides to Geelong within the No. 11 decides previous to the 2020 season, Brown performed each recreation that 12 months, damage made his second season grim and restricted him to only three video games. However when he hit the park, Brown confirmed actual energy on the defensive, standing tall alongside the likes of Meg McDonald and Maddy McMahon.
This grueling second 12 months on the AFLW has precipitated Brown to step up and reassess whether or not he now desires to be a footy participant.
Millie Brown of Geelong is at work within the first spherical of 2020. Picture: AFL Images
“I wasn’t actually having fun with taking part in soccer anymore, I had misplaced some ardour,” Brown stated.
“I used to be going by means of a little bit of psychological well being stuff. Some anxiousness and melancholy and that kind of factor that I do know lots of people are going by means of however in that standing atmosphere, I discovered it very difficult and really demanding and I used to be sort of not performing very effectively and received injured.
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“I assume I needed to stroll away from it to determine if it was one thing I actually needed to do. At first I did not assume you’d remorse it as a result of ‘Oh rattling, I want I had thought. I am again.”
Millie Brown and her father Paul after Millie was drafted by Geelong forward of the 2020 season. Picture: AFL Images
However to return, Brown needed to transfer to a brand new membership. Not being reminded of those adverse feelings each time she entered coaching was key to her return from her to footy.
“I assume it might be actually arduous for me to return to that atmosphere the place I wasn’t feeling very effectively, however it’s not towards the Cats. I needed to reset, renew and take a look at a brand new place,” she stated.
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However now, Brown, who lives in Melbourne, “attunes to metropolis life and trams” and trains with Bulldogs, is best outfitted to do a greater job than ever earlier than in his life.
“I believe I’ve gotten loads higher on the psychological facet of issues, it is time for me to be a bit proactive if I really feel a bit drained, and the physiques and everybody right here is in search of me fantastically, I really feels fairly good,” he stated.
Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator, unable to speak, and may lose an eye.
The Indian-born novelist, who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state and airlifted to hospital.
“The news is not good,” Andrew Wylie, Rushdie’s agent, said.
“Salman will likely lose one eye, the nerves in his arm were severed and his liver was stabbed and damaged.”
Rushdie, 75, was being introduced to give a talk to an audience of hundreds on artistic freedom at western New York’s Chautauqua Institution when a man rushed to the stage and lunged at the novelist, who has lived with a bounty on his head since the late 1980s.
Stunned attendees helped wrest the man from Rushdie, who had fallen to the floor.
Police identified the suspect as Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old man from Fairview, New Jersey.
Medics tend to Salman Rushdie. Credit: Joshua Goodman/AP
“A man jumped up on the stage … and started what looked like beating him on the chest, repeated fist strokes into his chest and neck,” Bradley Fisher, who was in the audience, said.
“People were screaming and crying out and gasping.”
Henry Reese, the event’s moderator, suffered a minor head injury during the incident.
Rushdie, who was born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in Bombay, now known as Mumbai, before moving to the United Kingdom, has faced death threats for his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims said contained blasphemous passages.
The novel was banned in many countries with large Muslim populations upon its 1988 publication.
A few months later, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran’s supreme leader, pronounced a fatwa, or religious edict, calling upon Muslims to kill the novelist and anyone involved in the book’s publication for blasphemy.
Rushdie, who called his novel “pretty mild”, went into hiding for many years. Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of the novel, was murdered in 1991.
Hadi Matar is escorted from the stage. Credit: AP
The Iranian government said in 1998 it would no longer back the fatwa, and Rushdie has lived relatively openly in recent years, although Khomeini’s successor as supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said as recently as 2019 the fatwa remained “irrevocable”.
Iranian organisations, some affiliated with the government, have raised a bounty worth millions of dollars for Rushdie’s murder.
Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency and other news outlets donated money in 2016 to increase the bounty by $US600,000 ($A845,000).
Fars called Rushdie an apostate who “insulted the prophet” in his report on Friday’s attack.
Rushdie published a memoir in 2012 about his life under the fatwa called Joseph Anton, the pseudonym he used while under British police protection.
Salman Rushdie is airlifted to hospital. Credit: AP
His second novel, Midnight’s Children, won the 1981 Booker Prize.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was appalled Rushdie was “stabbed while exercising a right we should never cease to defend”.
Rushdie was at the institution in western New York for a discussion about the United States giving asylum to writers and artists in exile and “as a home for freedom of creative expression”, according to the institution’s website.
There were no obvious security checks at the Chautauqua Institution, a landmark founded in the 19th century in the small lakeside town of the same name, with staff simply checking people’s tickets for admission, attendees said.
Author Salman Rushdie. Credit: Grant Pollard/Grant Pollard/Invision/AP
“I felt like we needed to have more protection there because Salman Rushdie is not a usual writer,” Anour Rahmani, an Algerian writer and activist who was in the audience, said.
“He’s a writer with a fatwa against him.”
Michael Hill, the institution’s president, said at a news conference, “Our whole purpose is to help people bridge what has been too divisive of a world.
“The worst thing Chautauqua could do is back away from its mission in light of this tragedy. I don’t think Mr. Rushdie would want that either.”
Rushdie became an American citizen in 2016 and lives in New York City.
Alana King paid a touching tribute to her hero Shane Warne after taking her first ever hat-trick, with the feat coming at Emirates Old Trafford, the ground where the late Australian icon made his name almost 30 years ago.
The 26-year-old Commonwealth Games gold medalist – who narrowly missed out on taking a hat-trick in the group stage against Barbados – bowled Cordelia Griffith, trapped Sophie Ecclestone lbw and bowled Kate Cross to etch her name into history with the first hat -trick in one-and-a-bit seasons of the women’s Hundred.
“Will I get my name up here at Old Trafford?” she asked. “That would be brilliant. Hopefully right next to Warnie. He took poles here for fun, and I’m sure he was looking down pretty happy.”
King was of course referring to Warne’s ball of the century to Mike Gatting here in 1993.
“He was a massive inspiration, but it wasn’t just me. It was kids all around the world who he inspired to pick up legspin. He was definitely the reason I picked up legspin. Hopefully he’s been proud watching down on me spin a few.
“When I was a bit younger, I did a couple of sessions with him. All I remember from that was him saying, ‘Spin it hard and have some fun’. I live by that every single day.
“That’s my first hat-trick. Not even in juniors did I take one. My first hat-trick at Old Trafford, I couldn’t have written it.
“As soon as I got that first wicket, I knew I had to keep aiming for the stumps. I’m just stoked that I can play my part for this team. Kate Cross came up to me after the game and said, ‘I can’t believe I gave that wicket to you’.”
Not only did King shine with the ball, she contributed two sixes in a crucial unbeaten 19 off nine deliveries at the end of the Rockets innings, boosting them to 119 for 5. She also took a smart low catch out at deep midwicket.
King added: “The atmosphere was absolutely incredible. To get our first win was pretty special. We knew we were under par with the bat, and we needed to stick to our game plan with the ball. We wanted to take some early wickets in the powerplay, which we did. As soon as we got their two openers out, we knew the pressure was back on them.”
Originals’ coach Paul Shaw said: “In the first half, I thought we bowled and fielded really well, and we were happy chasing 120. But then the second bit, we didn’t play like we wanted to play.
“Alana King’s a quality performer who will be around for a long time. She bowled really, really well. But we didn’t play her that well.”
