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News.com.au
29-05-2025
- General
- News.com.au
‘That's a choice': Slater's blunt admission as Maroons' attitude slammed, DCE's plea
Queensland coach Billy Slater has slammed his side's discipline in their series opening loss on Wednesday night, but he doesn't believe changes are required for a must-win Origin II. The Maroons were beaten to the punch from the opening whistle and found themselves on the wrong side of a 9-6 penalty count in the 18-6 loss at Suncorp Stadium. Ill-disciplined ruck penalties put Slater's side on the back foot early and they failed to learn from their mistakes in the second half. The fourth-year Queensland coach was asked whether he believed the loss was due to personnel or attitude. 'To be honest, I don't think it's either,' Slater said. 'I definitely don't think it's a personnel thing. I know what this team's capable of and that's why… you can probably see I'm disappointed because they haven't played their best footy and I feel responsible to try and help them get there. 'So yeah, it's definitely not a personnel thing, to be honest, and they've had a great attitude as well. But with the discipline side of the game, the attitude wasn't good enough. 'We needed to change things and we didn't change things enough. It might look close but (it wasn't). In terms of how close we were to play our best footy, we were nowhere near it.' The series now heads to Perth and Slater was asked what it's going to take to turn things around and level the series. 'Decisions from the playing group. I've just spoken about the discipline part of the game and that's a choice,' Slater said, with those last three words particularly damning. 'So probably a shift in that to start with and I'll look at my preparation as well. 'I know there is so much more in this footy team. It's best of three, you've only got to win two games and that's still alive and we'll be going after it. 'It doesn't just happen, you've got to make it happen and we weren't prepared to make it happen the tough way tonight. 'Too many leg ups, too many penalties, a few errors and that part of the game NSW did better than us. 'It's pretty simple, if you don't have the footy you make it really tough on yourself. I can't question the effort or commitment the team have, it's a tough game out there, it's not easy to play that sort of game and they kept hanging in there and turning up for each other but we just made it way too hard for ourselves. 'Like many of our players, Harry (Grant) wasn't at his best unfortunately, but he wasn't on his own.' Queensland have scored just one try in their past two games, both at Suncorp Stadium, and under pressure halfback Daly Cherry-Evans said he hope Slater sticks solid with him. 'With losing comes the question (if he'll be dropped). We've opened ourselves up to these sorts of questions but I'd love the opportunity to come back and correct it,' Cherry-Evans said. 'Disappointing is the best word to explain (the attack), especially where we've played the last two games and to only walk away with one try… there's a bit of work to do there. 'When you're ill-disciplined you put yourself under pressure and we gave them a lot of possession.'
Irish Times
09-05-2025
- General
- Irish Times
Book reviews in brief: Moral Formations, A Fool's Kabbalah, Motherland
Moral Formations: Discipline and Religion in the Irish Army, 1922-32 by Daniel Ayiotis (Eastwood Books, €20) Replacing the Irish Republican Army that had fought the War of Independence with a 'National Army' that would defend the nascent Irish Free State encumbered the first government as it confronted the threat and then the reality of the Civil War. Ayiotis, who is director of the Military Archives, draws extensively from the archives, and other sources, to show how the Department of Defence and Army GHQ created a command structure and codes of discipline, while Catholic chaplains demanded chapels in every barracks for Masses, retreats and sodalities, and the Medical Corps sought to ensure sanitation and hygiene while fighting 'the twin vices of drink and venereal disease'. Ray Burke A Fool's Kabbalah by Steve Stern (Melville House, £16.99) A Fool's Kabbalah unfolds as a dual narrative set against the wreckage of postwar Europe, where wit becomes not only a refuge but a form of resistance. With precision and dark lyricism, Stern crafts a meditation on survival, grief, memory, and the strange absurdity of history. Gershom Scholem, a renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism, sets out to salvage Jewish texts destroyed by the Nazis, while Menke, a shtetl trickster, faces a very different fate. The novel moves between biting irony and aching sorrow, its language crackling with echoes of Kafka and Beckett. Stern's prose is elegant and richly imaginative, balancing pathos with philosophical insight. He doesn't offer easy solace – only a raw, unflinching reckoning with history's weight. A beautifully crafted novel of intelligence, compassion, and surprising moral grace. Adam Wyeth READ MORE Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Identity by Luke Pepera (W&N, £22) Pepera has set himself an ambitious task in journeying through the history of a people that 'extend[s] all the way back to the beginning of our species'. 'Journey' is the appropriate word, as the author focuses on sharing the essence rather than penning a comprehensive history which, he muses, would take several lifetimes given the 'continent's vastness and the sheer immensity of varied peoples who have lived there'. In order to do so, Pepera reaches beyond the lens of colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade - which occupy a culturally important but rather brief part of the continent's history - focusing rather on topics ranging from ancestral veneration to matriarchal societies, oral storytelling and its influence on modern-day rap music, and how the dead live on in African societies. An informative, enlightening read. Brigid O'Dea
Express Tribune
09-02-2025
- Express Tribune
Education department penalises 881 staff
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab's Education Department has said it penalised 881 officers and staff members from grades 1 to 16 following disciplinary inquiries under the Punjab Employees Efficiency, Discipline, and Accountability (PEDA) Act over the past year. The inquiries, conducted from March 2024 to January 31, 2025, resulted in various actions against teaching and non-teaching staff. According to official data, 263 employees were found guilty and dismissed from service, 11 were forced into early retirement, and six were immediately terminated. Additionally, six employees had their service tenure revoked, while 35 were fined an amount equivalent to one month's salary. Furthermore, 24 employees faced frozen annual increments, 107 were issued substantial fines, and 201 were given final warnings. Meanwhile, 228 employees were exonerated. The year 2024 turned out to be extremely "disappointing" and "educationally disastrous" for the Punjab Education Department in terms of controversial policies, especially privatisation. Teachers and non-teaching staff remained on continuous strikes against the government's academic policies. Record holidays in educational institutions were also recorded last year. The year also witnessed an alarming rise in the sale of government schools, mass dismissals of teachers, and rationalisation.
