“Whatever boyish excitement I had going in was crushed by the reality of the batsuit,” he said in “Val.” “It was frustrating until I realized that my role in the film was just to shut up and stand where I was told.”
long weekend when bonds between Australians and New Zealanders forged in war were reinforced on playing fields in both countries.There were three trans-Tasman matches during the
, and New Zealand clubs won two of them.The Hamilton-based Chiefs beat the Western Force 56-22 and the Wellington-based Hurricanes became the first New Zealand franchise to win in Australia this season when they beat the Canberra-based Brumbies 35-29. Queensland Reds beat the Auckland-based Blues 35-21 in Brisbane.The player of the match in the Reds-Blues match was awarded the Sellars-Dixon Medal, commemorating Queensland flyhalf Billy Dixon and Auckland hooker George Dixon, both of whom died in World War I.
Queensland captain Tate McDermott has called for the Reds-Blues match to become a regular Anzac Day fixture.“Anzac Day is an incredibly special day for a number of reasons. Hopefully, we can bring people together and do our small part in showing what the Anzac spirit means,” McDermott said.
Anzac Day commemorates the Australia New Zealand Army Corps and remembers the war dead of both nations. It falls on April 25, the anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in World War I in 1915 when Australians and New Zealanders landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey.
More than 8,000 Australians and almost 3,000 New Zealanders died at Gallipoli and through that sacrifice their nations have been linked ever since in war and peace.“The great distance between the defendant’s power plants and the plaintiff’s residence in Peru alone was not sufficient reason to declare the lawsuit unfounded,” the court said in a statement.
Experts said the case has setin the fight to hold major polluters accountable for
that are currently underway and opens the door for future litigation,” Sebastien Duyck, an attorney with the Center for International Environmental Law, told The Associated Press.Roda Verheyen, Lliuya’s attorney, called the court’s decision “a milestone and will give a tailwind to climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, and thus to the move away from fossil fuels worldwide” even though her client lost.