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Canberra Theatre Centre: ⚡ Remember A Very Potter Musical?! We cannot wait to welcome Emmy and Golden Globe award winner Darren Criss to Canberra for one night only – which in Darren’s words, ‘could be the best show of the tour’! He'll be performing some top hits from Glee, Broadway, StarKid and beyond with a live band & accompanied by some VERY special friends… This is a night you don’t want to miss! DARREN CRISS Monday 4 September at 8pm Book now: https://bit.ly/44vqaQ5
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2023 Super Rugby Pacific quarterfinals: Blues face to NSW Waratahs in Eden Park
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2023 Super Rugby Pacific quarterfinals: Blues face to NSW Waratahs in Eden Park
The Waratahs must now pick themselves up in preparation for Friday’s quarterfinal matchup at Eden Park against the Blues. Following is the Super Rugby Pacific quarter-final draw after the final round of the regular season concluded on Saturday:
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Super Rugby quarterfinals
Friday, June 9
Eden Park, Auckland (kickoff 7.35 pm local, 0735 GMT)
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Prior to the Super Rugby Pacific quarterfinals, the Blues were dealt a severe blow when it became known that Patrick Tuipulotu would miss the remainder of the competition due to a fractured arm.
At Eden Park on Friday, the Blues defeated the Highlanders 16-9 before the All Blacks second row suffered an injury.
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The 30-year-old participated in all 80 minutes of the game and scored the game’s only try, although he was later placed in a cast.
On Friday, the Waratahs will visit the Auckland team at Eden Park for the first Super Rugby Pacific quarterfinal.
Tuipulotu’s injury was confirmed by Blues head coach Leon MacDonald on Monday, and he estimated a six-week recovery time.
According to MacDonald, “It’s brutally demoralizing [for him].”
He missed last year because he was in Japan, and he was quite eager to wear a Blues jersey this time around.
He is a crucial member of our team, and I thought he was really starting to find his stride with his form and leadership.
Coach of the NSW Waratahs Darren Coleman called the team’s performance “shit” and said he was “embarrassed” by the club’s sluggish 33-24 loss to Moana Pasifika on Saturday.
It was difficult to witness for the 19,219 spectators who had traveled to Allianz Stadium for Michael Hooper’s final game in Sydney because it was Moana’s lone victory of the Super Rugby Pacific season. Super Rugby quarter finals 2023 fixtures
The ACT Brumbies and Queensland Reds also qualified for the quarter-finals with the Western Force and Melbourne Rebels missing out.
SUPER RUGBY PACIFIC QUARTER-FINALS
Friday 5.35pm AEST: Blues (3) vs Waratahs (6) in Auckland
Saturday 2.35pm AEST: Chiefs (1) vs Reds (8) in Hamilton
Saturday 5.05pm AEST: Crusaders (2) vs Drua (7) in Christchurch
Saturday 7.35pm AEST: Brumbies (4) vs Hurricanes (5) in Canberra
‘Hungry’ Blues prepare for a semifinal matchup with NSW Waratahs
The team had faith that they might generate greater unity and discipline while playing the NSW Waratahs in the DHL Super Rugby Pacific’s first quarterfinal on Friday in Auckland because of a hunger for victory that wasn’t always present with Blues teams from the previous ten years.
Coach Leon MacDonald stated that as the Blues prepared for their quarterfinal, the game served as a reminder of the need of maintaining discipline.
The Highlanders managed to stay in the game despite not having enough possession to concern the Blues, and the Blues’ errors and infractions made it easier for them, showing the repercussions of failing on that front.
The Highlanders’ desire to play uglily and avoid the 60-point beating they received in the first round of play infuriated the Blues, and the third-quarter scrum fest that followed sapped the sting and shape from their performance.
“We ended up stumbling home,” one of our guys said. “Our guys looked frustrated and probably started to lose patience on attack.”
He claimed that while a victory was a victory, the most crucial factor was that they had achieved during a season of the year when victory was everything.
The first period demonstrated the Blues’ potential.
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Artificial trees capture new bird species on candid camera
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An experiment from The Australian National University (ANU) using artificial trees has attracted birds and other wildlife never before seen in a damaged Canberra landscape—catching them on camera at the same time.
The experiment is a collaboration with the ACT Parks and Conservation Service and uses a series of power poles and translocated dead trees erected in landscape under regeneration.
The ANU researchers saw a four-fold increase in bird species on five recently erected power-poles. There was also a seven-fold increase in bird species across five re-purposed dead trees.
In a separate project on the same site, the birds were captured on motion-sensitive cameras hidden in the artificial structures, with the footage providing a public database for species activity.
Associate Professor Philip Gibbons from the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society wanted to test whether artificial structures could be used to provide a home for birds and other wildlife when mature trees were cut down for residential and other development.
He says the artificial trees work better than he “could have ever hoped for.”
“Even if we plant new trees elsewhere to replace those we knock down they take a century to mature and develop suitable habitats for birds and wildlife,” Associate Professor Gibbons said.
“Globally, mature trees are in decline and we’re going to see an absence of mature trees in some landscapes by the end of this century. So these artificial structures are really key to filling that gap to preserve the ecosystem.
“And from what we can see they work. Not only did they attract birds to the landscape, but they also provided a home for ladybirds, wood spiders and microbats.”
Associate Professor Gibbons said the artificial trees weren’t a “cure-all.”
“The structures can only do so much and we found 37 percent of bird species that live in mature forests did not venture into the artificial structures,” he said.
“We need to preserve as many mature trees as we can, continue to plant more new seedlings for the future and then raise these artificial structures if we are to mitigate this deficit of mature trees for future generations.
“At the end of the day, you can’t beat real trees. But they can take years to grow. So this is a great option in areas needing regeneration or while you wait for trees to mature.”
The study area, a 50-hectare site at Barrer Hill in the Molonglo Valley, has been set aside for regeneration to offset mature trees and other native vegetation cleared for new suburbs.
The final piece of the restoration project was a “living art sculpture” created from a 400-year old yellow box tree cut down in a nearby suburb and re-erected in the offset site.
Dr. Mitchell Whitelaw from the ANU School of Art worked with American architect Joyce Hwang from University of Buffalo and Darren Le Roux of ACT Parks to install motion-sensitive cameras into the tree-sculpture.
They’ve captured images of more than 23 bird and animal species using the structures including a peregrine falcon, nankeen kestrel and tawny frogmouth.
More common species such as crimson and eastern rosellas, starlings, yellow-tailed black cockatoos, galahs, red wattlebirds, willie wagtails, red-rumped parrots, kookaburras, bats and marsupials are also using the structures.
Dr. Whitelaw’s database of pictures and videos is available at http://molonglo.life/#!/
People can watch and contribute to the content by tagging and identifying species.
“As well as some delightful and beautiful images, we’ve caught footage of a currawong raiding a starling’s nest. This is the sort of action in nature people just don’t get to see every day,” Dr. Whitelaw said.
“The database is a real-time record of the restoration of an ecosystem. We want people to feel connected to these public places and the wildlife in them.”
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20 THOUGHTS: Trade Radio Ga Ga (’is this real life or just a fantasy?’)
WHAT a stupid year.
The losers of the NRL Grand Final are paid out as winners by bookmakers, and not because of a silly betting promotion but because the code and its officials are as relevant and effective in their jobs as contraception to Irish catholic newlyweds on their honeymoon.
Where Donald Trump himself is evidence our species might now be regressing, the fact endless hours of Trade Radio always have talkback callers is the proof in that devolution pudding.
And in a year where all the conservatives and right-wingers in this country should be as excited as a Beagle on full lipstick following ScoMo’s Steven Bradbury effort in May, they’re got their pantyhose and pressed slacks in a twist because of what some Volvo factory-worker’s teenage daughter has to say about the inclement weather conditions.
There was chaos and anarchy on Swan Street for the second time in three years last month but Hold Kong locals asked Richmond fans if they could hold their beer. We lost Polly and Spud, and said vale, gone too soon, to Saturday Night Rove. Five clubs let go of their coaches, Pope Francis delisted one of his cardinals, and a ginger from Christchurch defeated his own country by the virtue of most boundaries.
But at least we retained the Ashes in England.
1. Let’s start with the footy, trades season is almost done. Hutchy to his credit was a genius for seeing revenue opportunity in this trade period, with an ‘insert sponsor here’ open line and hours and hours of coverage, its been a windfall and then some for his business. But I reckon we’re only a year or so away from the unwashed realising there’s no relevance in any of it until the final day. There’s only so many Terry Wallace orations on the merits of list analysis before your average punter switches off. Know when to hold them, know when to fold them, Craig.
2. The biggest name out there with a day to go is Joe Daniher. Was that meeting with Tom Harley a personal one or an actual, official Swans’ approach? Soft tacos, hard tacos, why not both? Now we have Essendon playing hardball and who knows if it gets done. Chances are it does, Geelong last year with Tim Kelly was more exception than example, if the Swans want him bad enough, they’ll lump up the pieces, especially if they fear as I do that Bud’s barely got ten more games in him in a market that requires a star.
3. St Kilda has a lot on. Jack Steven and Josh Bruce are two big losses, but getting in Dougal Howard, Bradley Hill, Zak Jones, Paddy Ryder and Dan Butler are some nice pieces. If Ratten can indeed coach, and as an ex-Clarko assistant he should be just fine, next year looks properly solid down at Moorabbin.
4. Whats the thinking with the Dogs? Aaron Naughton looks like a key forward gun, and Josh Schache was just starting to show something as a footballer without being a star. Yet they’re throwing all the cash at Josh Bruce for a go at a third flag? I do know he was free to a good home because the Saints were hellbent Max King’s twin at the Gold Coast would head home next year – not now after that re-signing yesterday. Couple big mistakes there for mine.
5. Tom Papley worth pick nine? Righto. And the Masked Singer will be popular on Australian television too, right?..... Yep, pick nine sounds about right then, forgive me.
6. Jack Martin though, to Carlton, that’s the steal of the whole thing. Martin is a freak, who has gone underappreciated playing in the ghost town that is Gold Coast, for a horribly weak side, in a club that can’t develop anyone not named Tom Lynch. But has talent to burn and could easily become one of Carlton’s top 10 players next year, in fact based on the player he can become, he should. Think 2019 Michael Walters. Seriously. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
7. Collingwood have cap issues? Really? Firstly who really knows, unlike North American sports where contracts are public, only each club really knows how much room they’ve got and how that ever would be divulged puzzles me. And yes they have to pay Grundy, De Goey and Moore next year, although the latter won’t be all that much given his hamstrings are like an Uber driver with turrets, unreliable and could snap at any time. But given the Pies were offering Tom Lynch the same financial terms as Richmond this time last year, with Scott Pendlebury out of contract next year and coming down in salary, with less stars to pay than West Coast, how is this a thing? It isn’t. Chris Mayne is overpaid, sure, but that’s it. Wells has retired, Beams took a cut, and unless George Calombaris oversaw their player payments and there’s backpay to cover off, I think it’s a total beat-up. But sure, let James Aish being wanted by his former backs coach at Freo to fuel that fable.
8. Crows hired Matthew Nicks. Reckon that’s got fail all over it. Adelaide’s list is in a heap, the review basically said their post Grand-Final plans two years ago totally wiped the place out like a broken toilet on a buck’s weekend, and not seeing to the damage since has only exacerbated the crap spilling out all over the shop. Good half dozen or so quality players leaving this offseason, Walker and Sloane are the wrong side of 30 and they’ve got only a few good kids, most clubs around them have better youth and are more rapidly improving. Either Nicks can’t coach at the level or he can but the Crows will be a bad side regardless, either way it doesn’t see him making a new contract beyond whats given out today.
9. NRL. Definiton of a pub league. Your local Wednesday night basketball is better run. And with better officiating. That Six Again controversy was the most befitting thing you’ll ever see to a sport, a sport where 13 of its 16 clubs run insolvent, but that’s ok because all their giant pokies-infested leagues club venues write them all a cheque to cover the losses each year. Absolute pub league.
10. If an umpire or referee makes a bad call, it’s only made worse by changing that decision midstream. If a player marks the ball, but then the umpire overrules saying no, it was touched, its no mark, and because you’ve claimed it and made no attempt to get rid of it its now holding the ball, you just can’t do that. Kids are taught to play to the whistle. Except in rugby league then. Because chances are what the ref just said isn’t what he is about to mean in a couple seconds time, just be patient. That referee shouldn’t be crucified for what’s essentially just one error, but in the grand scheme of things, he needs witness protection. Or better yet, stay off the roster for trips to Canberra next season.
11. It was mentioned in the preamble but no wonder SportsBet paid out all Canberra to win bets. The Raiders had all the momentum, it was 8-all, and it was near the Roosters tryline. They were no guarantee to score off that play, at best they might have got a repeat set. But if there was anyone more likely to break that deadlock given who was playing better but also, more importantly, the territory battle, it was the Green Machine. This isn’t SportsBet just being philanthropic, the result is just that shady.
12. Speaking of Sportsbet – Western United. Made their A-League debut on the weekend, won one-nil in front of some fans at Wellington. But it was midweek that we saw their announcement which said “we are proud to announce SportsBet has joined the club as its exclusive sports wagering partner”. Firstly, poor form, in a city where all the AFL clubs are quite publicly backing out of gambling revenue, to be going the other way stinks big time. But secondly, what does that even mean? That if I go into a TAB all Western United games are unavailable to bet on. Coz that’s just not even close to true. Dumb and stupid in all of the ways, that.
13. So the new boys have their home opener this weekend down at Geelong, even though they’re a team based out of Tarneit. Melbourne Victory when they’ve ventured down to Sleepy Hollow attract 14,000 or so, who knows how many turn up for the novelty first time around this Saturday. But going forward, given Melbourne City don’t exceed 10,000 and they play in town, if they’re getting anymore than 5,000-6,000 in what’s otherwise a 36,000 AFL venue, its going to look oh so pretty on television. What’s the opposite of the eggplant emoji?
14. Few more on the A-League, firstly, why have your opening round smack bang in the middle of an international window? They were so hyper vigilant to schedule their opening round after the AFL and NRL had ended they failed to recognise all of the good Aussie players will be off winning 28-nil against Chinese Taipei or Christmas Island or whoever it was. Its like Victoria Police planning a social function on New Year’s Eve. No-one’s going to be able to make it you morons.
15. And you open up with the Melbourne Derby. Lucky Victory is a terrifically run club with a strong, loyal fanbase. But only 33,000, with zero promotion? These should be nudging 50,000.
16. Lastly, you know they’re going really well when the free-to-air partner this season is the ABC. Even the VFL got a commercial broadcaster, yet the country’s premier round ball competition shares a channel with Gardening Australia and Four Corners. And the cherry on the top is when it comes to finals, and I’ll quote the ABC press release on this one, where “one A-League match per round broadcast live on ABC TV and iView around the country… and a selection of A-League finals on delay, including the grand final.” Delay?! Remember those days? You can’t make this stuff up.
17. Darren Weir got done for using jiggers. Rest of racing stays dead quiet. Right. Now is that because Darren is their mate and despite the heinous crimes blood is thicker than water in the industry and they have some empathy for him? Or is it a case of if he can get caught, then maybe some of the others equally as guilty could so easily as well, and staying mum is step one of avoiding such scrutiny? I wonder.
18. So, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge broke the two-hour barrier for running a marathon. Phenomenal achievement, just ridiculous to even comprehend the feat. Amazing. But it won’t count as a world record. Why? Well it wasn’t a race. Old mate contrived the event with a couple dozen pacers to help him do it and that’s it. It’s like if me and some mates hire lane eight down Altona Pool Thursday morning, and fresh off a high-protein breakfast and a quick hit of flakka happen to break 20 seconds for one-lap of freestyle – you think FINA will recognise it? You think Kieran Perkins will shout me free Light Start for life off the back of it? As a milk crusader I could only dream of such a reward but yeah nah. Nice stunt Eliud, you’re a freak of a human. But we’re in the same boat brother.
19. Tough one, not just for boxing because its bigger than that, but Patrick Day is in real bother and sincere optimism about his recovery to one side, so is his sport. Day was knocked out in the tenth round in a bout with Charles Conwell in Chicago in the weekend, which in itself is not unusual. But the consequences of the blow are such that Day is in a coma and in an “extremely critical condition”. Again, nothing but positive wishes about his eventual recovery first and foremost, but in an era where concussion in the football codes is as alarming as ever, combat spots’ existence, like boxing, could/would/should be on borrowed time with cases like this.
20. TV ratings worry the pants off me. By far the most important and major revenue source for all the sport we love to watch, it helps grow the professionalism and the standards, and the access really. But as TV viewership declines, so does the viewership with live sport. And we all waited with bated breath for the NRL Grand Final numbers in the hope maybe they would be good, and it wasn’t just sport in general in trouble, that maybe rugby league was still on an upward trajectory and its just everyone else.
Nope, it was down too. Usually something that rates at times near 3m nationally, it was around 1.8m. The AFL Grand Final, with an engaged Sydney audience, has been on a trajectory over 3.5m, topping 4m occasionally, it was under 3m for the first time in years. Australia Open primetime slots were down, cricket was good but still down, be it the summer on Seven or The Ashes mid-year on Nine.
What does this mean? It means less people are watching live sport. And when advertisers hear that, they’ll be paying less to the networks for the privilege of putting 30 seconds of their product in front of the eyeballs of footy fans. And that then means TV networks will hand over less cash, subsequently, to the sporting bodies for the rights to broadcast their fixtures.
It doesn’t mean that we’re all destined to see the days of the 1980s return where players need a job outside of footy and only one game is broadcast a week and all that nostalgia. But the idea that salaries will keep going up and up is gone, the idea the game can grow at the same rate looks doomed. So unless someone makes Foxtel honest (nudge nudge Amazon Prime) or this is only a lull, and once we get over Fortnite and Korean boy-bands we will all fall back in love with Friday night in front of the telly watching footy, it’s a big, big concern.
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“A world of secrets, lies, murder and betrayal …“
Secret City is a 6 part political thriller that was first aired on June 5th, 2016. Set in Australia’s capital, Canberra, it’s a story about an investigative journalist, Harriet Dunkley, who discovers a hidden world of deals and divided loyalties, lies and conspiracies.
Set amidst rising tensions between global superpowers, China and America, the client wanted the title to evoke a feeling of cold-war Berlin, so we developed a concept that stylised Canberra in a haunting way. Vacant architecture and isolated landmarks from Harriet’s world are seen through dense fog, partially obscuring reality and keeping the truth just out of reach.
Using Maya software we created all the scenes in 3d, including all the architecture and bridges, and even rebuilding some of the cast members from stills projected on 3d models. We added small natural movements like eye blinks and earrings swinging, giving the scenes a very eerie style which fit well with the mood of the series. Live action fog was then combined with smoke sims and light leak in nuke to complete the look.
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Asia and Australia Edition: Xi Jinping, Singapore, Republicans: Your Thursday Briefing
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• In Washington, President Trump continued his attacks on Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, two of his harshest Republican critics, who have said they will not run for re-election to the Senate.
“They had zero chance of being elected,” Mr. Trump said on Twitter. “Now act so hurt & wounded.”
And with divisions roiling the Republicans, the prospect of a once-in-a-generation bill to cut taxes increasingly appears to be the last, best hope for the party to find some common ground.
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• At least 19 Nigerian girls abducted by Boko Haram and sent on suicide missions managed to survive to tell their stories. Dozens of others have died.
The teenagers described how the armed militants tied suicide belts to their waists, or thrust bombs into their hands, and directed them toward crowded civilian areas.
Some begged ordinary citizens or the authorities to help them. “I came away thinking they were heroes,” our correspondent said.
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• Australia’s plan to close the Manus Island detention center in Papua New Guinea next week would expose the asylum seekers there to more danger than they face now, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.
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“There has been an escalation in violence in the last six months and there has been little to no action by police,” the group’s Australia director said. “It’s simply not safe to move them out of the facility.”
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• After more than 50 years of conspiracy theories, the final trove of sealed government records on President John F. Kennedy’s assassination is expected to be made public today.
Here’s a look back at decades of unanswered questions.
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• Toyota demanded “clarity” about the terms of trade after “Brexit” and warned of damage to its British operations, highlighting the looming dangers to Britain’s largely foreign-owned auto–making sector — and by extension, to other sectors that similarly operate from Britain to supply the European market.
• Here’s a rundown of the most futuristic cars at the Tokyo Motor Show.
• Assessing Australia’s tech: Our Sydney bureau chief finds an average internet speed below Thailand’s, but a flourishing start-up scene.
• Drawing on extensive economic data, a Times Op-Ed argues that China must slow its vigorous growth to catch up with the U.S. as the world’s top economic superpower.
• U.S. stocks were weaker. Here’s a snapshot of global markets.
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• The U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, Scott Brown, revealed that he was investigated and cautioned by Washington over comments he made to women in Samoa. [The New York Times]
• The #MeToo movement prompted a debate at the European Parliament, partly because of widespread reports of sexual harassment within the E.U. bureaucracy. [The New York Times]
• A Vietnamese court sentenced a student activist to six years in prison for using social media to promote a multiparty democracy and freedom of the press. His lawyer called the sentence “absurd.” [AP]
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• Malaysia’s nine state sultans issued a rare joint statement calling for an investigation into a corruption scandal involving Prime Minister Najib Razak. [Agence France-Presse]
• Kenya holds a second presidential vote today that may be as muddled as its first, discredited one. [The New York Times]
• Singapore is the first Asian country judged to hold the world’s most powerful passport, giving its citizens visa-free access to 159 countries. [Business Insider]
• Canberra, Australia’s “bush capital,” was named No. 3 on Lonely Planet’s Top 10 Cities, setting off a wave of sarcasm in the country’s news media. [BBC]
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• Here’s how to choose a good air purifier.
• Recipe of the day: Discover the best way to make salmon with our recipe for citrus salmon with herb salsa.
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• Two very different hotels in Afghanistan’s Bamian Valley — one with plush executive suites and an extensive menu, the other a two-room mud hut with wasps and 80-cent beans — speak to the fluctuating fortunes of an area seeking a new identity after the destruction of their giant Buddhas.
• In memoriam: Fats Domino, 89, the early rock ’n’ roll star with a boogie-woogie piano.
• Albert Einstein’s two-sentence “theory of happiness,” written in lieu of a tip to a Tokyo bellboy in 1922, sold at auction for $1.56 million.
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“Do I look like a gangster? I’m a businessman!”
Such is life in the world of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, an installment in the long-running video game series that was originally released 13 years ago today.
The Grand Theft Auto games, an action-adventure series in which players pursue a life of crime, has stretched over 20 years and more than a dozen titles.
With 250 million in sales, it’s one of the most successful franchises in video game history, falling behind only famous names like Mario and Pokémon.
The games are known for their nonlinear, open-world style, which allows players to cause random mayhem in fictionalized versions of U.S. cities.
As such, the series has long been accused of glamorizing violence. (In 2009, Guinness World Records labeled it the most controversial video game series ever, citing more than 4,000 news articles.)
Even so, the series has been a critical success — several titles are among the most well-reviewed games of all time — and celebrated for its soundtracks, voice acting and the sly sense of humor it applies to American culture.
As one character notes, guns blazing, “Ain’t the American dream grand!”
Thomas Furse contributed reporting.
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ACT Brumbies XV vs NSW Waratahs live Rugby at St. Edmund’s College in Canberra | 24 September 2022
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ACT Brumbies XV vs NSW Waratahs live Rugby at St. Edmund’s College in Canberra | 24 September 2022
Rugby ACT Brumbies XV vs NSW Waratahs Development side at St. Edmund’s College in Canberra on Saturday 24 September.
Contracted ACT Brumbies players will combine with development talent and local players from the Bentspoke John I Dent Cup, providing valuable minutes for emerging members of Stephen Larkham’s Super Rugby Pacific squad.
The fixture will be part of an exciting double-header, with the ACT and Southern NSW Kestrels in action against a President’s XV selection of talent from outside of the ACT Brumbies region, with entry being free for all.
ACT Brumbies CEO, Phil Thomson said: “It’s exciting for us to be able to organise this double-header and to be able to take it to our local community at St. Edmund’s College.”
“Our Pathways and Representative programs are in full swing with City vs Country taking place on Saturday in Goulburn, and this game is certainly part of that, and it will be great to see our contracted talent mixing in with some of the standout players from our local competitions.”
ACT Brumbies head coach, Stephen Larkham said: “I’m really pleased we were able to organise this fixture, with the support of Darren [Coleman, NSW Waratahs head coach] and the Waratahs.”
“It’s going to be very beneficial for us to get more minutes into some of our younger players, while also having a look at other long-term development talent coming in for an opportunity.
“For us, it’s even better to be able to play at a place that has produced plenty of Brumbies in St. Edmund’s College and we’re looking forward to seeing everyone there nice and early for the Kestrels game.”
NSW Waratahs head coach, Darren Coleman said: “We’re excited to have this match before our official pre-season starts in November and I’d like to thank the Brumbies for helping arrange this.”
“For the players not involved in Wallabies and the Australia A programs, it provides an opportunity to get some quality game time, build some cohesion, and show us what they can do in this environment.”
KEY DETAILS
Date:
Saturday 17th September
Time:
12pm – City Women vs Country Women
13:25 – Brumbies City South vs Brumbies Country
14:20 – Brumbies City North vs Brumbies Country
15:10 – Brumbies City North vs Brumbies City South
Venue:
Simon Poideven Oval, 240/246 Addison Street, Goulburn
ACT AND SOUTHERN NSW KESTRELS vs PRESIDENT’S XV
St. Edmund’s College, Canberra
Saturday 24 September, Kick-off 11:30am
ACT BRUMBIES XV vs NSW WARATAHS DEVELOPMENT
St. Edmund’s College, Canberra
Saturday 24 September, Kick-off 1:30pm
ACT BRUMBIES COUNTRY (MEN)
Forwards: Alex Meades, Alex Farquar (Wagga Ag College), Adam Mokotupu, Thomas Blanch, Jacob Nielsen, Pita Herangi (Wagga City), Oliver Toma, Connor Swann (Tumut), Will Mooney, Jordan Wilcox (Goulburn), Talilotu Uoifalelahi, Blake Theunissen (Griffith), James Bundy (Broulee)
Backs: Jackson Reardon, Alec Palmer (Goulburn), Anthony Taylor, Max Gay (Wagga Ag College), Vincent Wise (Tumut), Noa Rabici, Sheldon Tovio (Wagga City), Vilitati Seru (Cooma), Lachie Day (Wagga Waratahs), Aaron Leighton (Crookwell), Tully MacPherson(Albury)
Nick McCarthy (Head Coach), Doug Ryan (Assistant Coach), Jake Eaglesham (Manager)
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