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Keywords: Fifa

AUSTRALIA

South Africa no longer deserves to host 2010 World Cup
- Peter Roebuck
- 16 April 2007
14 Comments
By supporting and sustaining the holocaust unfolding in Zimbabwe, the South African Government has aligned itself with the ranks of evil. FIFA has no choice but to find a new location for football World Cup.
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ENVIRONMENT

World Youth Day's ecological conversion opportunity
- Stefan Gigacz
- 08 March 2007
9 Comments
More than 100,000 international visitors are also expected at next year's World Youth Day event hosted by the Catholic Church in Sydney. A large number of these will arrive on flights close to 25 hours duration, putting 7-8 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere.
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RELIGION

The World Game of ecumenical dialogue
- Richard Treloar
- 24 July 2006
In the years ahead Faith and Order will address potentially church-dividing issues relating to biblical interpretation, theological anthropology, religious pluralism, mutual recognition of baptism, and other aspects of ecclesiology. The FIFA World Cup is an intrusion of the carnivalesque into ‘realpolitik.’ Richard Treloar muses on the intersection of these
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AUSTRALIA

Old Europe reigns supreme in World Cup
- James Massola
- 10 July 2006
2 Comments
While refereeing standards have been the subject of much debate at this World Cup, and some have decried the paucity of goals, the re-assertion of ‘Old Europe’s’ footballing pre-eminence has escaped serious analysis.
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AUSTRALIA

Football and social harmony
- Michael Mullins & James Massola
- 12 June 2006
1 Comment
The Australian national football team has played and won its first game in a World Cup for 32 years. Not for nothing did Kofi Annan remark recently that he wished the UN could bring people together so effectively, and in such good spirits.
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