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- ↑ "The Peter Serracino Inglott Award". Times of Malta. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- ↑ "MOAS directors receive the PSI award for civic engagement". Malta Today. 16 November 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- ↑ Think tank calls it a day amid sense of 'defeatism'