Keywords: Opening Ceremony
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INTERNATIONAL
- Juliette Hughes
- 07 August 2024
You have to admit, the French have form for mocking religion. But with their peculiar take on the Lord's Supper with all its Dionysian excess, the colourfully irreverent opening ceremony left many asking: has Paris 2024 turned the Olympics into a ritual of performative ethics?
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INTERNATIONAL
- Binoy Kampmark
- 05 August 2024
The pain cities endure while hosting large sporting events like the Olympics has proved considerable. They exert a remarkable strain on budgets, disrupt commerce, compromise valuable real estate, inflict environmental harm, and often result in evictions and displacements of vulnerable residents.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Michael McVeigh
- 05 August 2024
Imagine a universe where the arts, rather than sport, gets all the money and attention from the masses. But we'd be mistaken if we it tried to set up art and sport as opposite rather than complementary pursuits.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 03 September 2012
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The Paralympics opening ceremony shows how far we've come in reversing the exclusion of disabled athletes. But they encourage physically disabled athletes at the expense of the intellectually disabled.
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AUSTRALIA
- Fatima Measham
- 01 August 2012
16 Comments
The games are an escapist spectacle, where the flags of Iran, Palestine and Syria flutter without irony alongside those of the US, Israel and Turkey, and delegates from Spain and Greece wave as if their nation's economies have not fractured the Eurozone. The dissonance between the games and reality has become hard to ignore.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Photos from the presentation of the inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award the Margaret Dooley
Award for Young Writers 2008 were presented by Mary Dalmau of Reader's
Feast bookstore and Tim Kroenert from Eureka Street at the opening of
the Reader's Feast Crime and Justice Festival on 18 July.
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