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AUSTRALIA

Amoral putting: The LIV Golf circuit comes to Adelaide
- Binoy Kampmark
- 24 November 2022
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LIV Golf chief executive officer Greg Norman, financed by the pockets of the House of Saud via Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, continues the corporate march across the putting greens of the planet. Complementing the Saudi Kingdom’s funding, South Australia's Major Events Fund is contributing $40 million and in doing so, Premier Malinauskas has linked his government with a regime with a notorious human rights record.
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MEDIA

The killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia
- Binoy Kampmark
- 05 December 2019
5 Comments
In Malta, shudders are being felt through the media and political establishment. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has announced his intention to resign. Other officials are doing the same. Malta's equivalent of the accusing ghost of Banquo is that of the slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, killed by a car bomb in October 2017.
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INTERNATIONAL

The west's fossil fuels problem is strategic, too
- Jeff Sparrow
- 08 July 2019
5 Comments
When discussing climate change, it's easy to depict the world's reliance on fossil fuels as primarily a technological problem, to be resolved by new methods for harnessing renewable energies. But that's only part of the story, as the example of Saudi Arabia shows.
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INTERNATIONAL

Qunun warmed hearts, Araibi still in the cold
- Erin Cook
- 11 January 2019
5 Comments
The world sat gripped as Rahaf al-Qunun live-tweeted her mad dash to freedom, then cheered when photos of her being escorted from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport by UN workers emerged. Hakeem al-Araibi has not been so lucky. His current nightmare is emblematic of the bureaucratic mess forced on refugees worldwide.
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INTERNATIONAL

America's new hope found in diversity
- Jim McDermott
- 09 November 2018
3 Comments
The chaos of the last two years will almost certainly continue in the next two (see: current occupant, White House). So will the deep divides between parties and between regional and urban America. But this week Americans seemed to remind themselves that even when the light grows dim, the possibility of a better day never fully disappears.
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ECONOMICS

Fronts of distortion in the Khashoggi affair
- Binoy Kampmark
- 19 October 2018
4 Comments
Trump finds facts distasteful and prefers to avoid engaging them; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia finds them in need of censorship, possibly of the most extreme type; and Turkey, with one of the world's most sullied records in treating journalists, retains a reserve discordant with its own findings.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

The ethics of giving service
- Alice Johnson
- 09 October 2013
3 Comments
In a contemporary society where the focus lies amid a whirlpool of egocentricity, self-gain and self-improvement, one must question where the true motive for giving service lies. While the 'ethic of duty' is the ethic of the social gospel movements, Kant believed religion was only valuable because it caused one to lead a good moral life. Thus it is possible to argue that the habit of giving true service lies in the 'ethic of love'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Life as a game show
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 December 2008
1 Comment
Having grown up an orphan in a Mumbai slum, Jamal is an unlikely candidate for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. A sense of the divine pervades the film, but while Jamal seems destined for good fortune, his brother Salim diverges towards corruption.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Lucille Hughes, Allan James Thomas, Tim Metherall, Siobhan Jackson
- 12 June 2006
Reviews of the films Ten; Kill Bill Vol. 1; Intolerable Cruelty and In This world
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Keywords: Jamal