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	<title>Crikey &#187; Alex Mitchell</title>
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		<title>BBC&#8217;s Question Time gets Nicked with a reborn Alf Garnett</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/bbcs-question-time-gets-nicked-with-a-reborn-alf-garnett/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/bbcs-question-time-gets-nicked-with-a-reborn-alf-garnett/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC Question Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British National Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Dimbleby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Griffin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite 300 police holding back protesters and calls from politicians to ban him, the leader of the UK’s far-right British National Party, Nick Griffin, had his one-hour of fame when he appeared as a guest on BBC1's prestigious <em>Question Time</em>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Starsuckers: British tabloids caught in the act by filmmakers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/starsuckers-british-tabloids-caught-in-the-act-by-filmmakers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/starsuckers-british-tabloids-caught-in-the-act-by-filmmakers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film & TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[british tabloids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News of the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starsuckers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunday Mirror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tabloid media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tabloids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The sewers of London’s tabloid newspapers are explored in a documentary film called <i>Starsuckers</i> Predictably, the silence of the tabloids has been deafening.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>British Tories try cross-dressing to win next election</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/british-tories-try-cross-dressing-to-win-next-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/british-tories-try-cross-dressing-to-win-next-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Britain’s party conference season has finished and now an army of commentators is picking over the entrails of the spin, the pollsters are cranking up their next surveys and the voters are waiting to have their say when the general election is called.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Labour pains 11 years on &#8230; and no-one is listening</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/labour-pains-11-years-on-and-no-one-is-listening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/labour-pains-11-years-on-and-no-one-is-listening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week's British Labour Party conference in Brighton was supposed to act as a springboard for the desperate re-election hopes of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. It failed, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b> from London.

]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blair&#8217;s mission from God rings hollow</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/blairs-mission-from-god-rings-hollow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/blairs-mission-from-god-rings-hollow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cherie Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the pope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vatican]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former British PM Tony Blair continued his Mission from God last week with a star-billing at a conference at the Vatican. Too bad his actions in office don't coincide with his Catholic principles.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bluefin tuna are the new whales</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/11/bluefin-tuna-are-the-new-whales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/11/bluefin-tuna-are-the-new-whales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bluefin tuna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[London's celebrity chefs are taking endangered tuna off their menus and Waitrose supermarkets have banned its sale. How long before Australia follows suit?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tony Blair&#8217;s EU Presidency bid stumbles at the first hurdle</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/20/tony-blairs-eu-presidency-bid-stumbles-at-the-first-hurdle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/20/tony-blairs-eu-presidency-bid-stumbles-at-the-first-hurdle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Tony Blair’s conceited plan to resuscitate his political career to become the first President of Europe has been greeted with howls of anger and derision.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>UK Afghanistan commitment unravels at remarkable speed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/17/uk-commitment-to-afghanistan-unraveling-at-a-remarkable-speed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/17/uk-commitment-to-afghanistan-unraveling-at-a-remarkable-speed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week’s funerals of the latest casualties has provoked an angry public debate about the war.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/17/uk-commitment-to-afghanistan-unraveling-at-a-remarkable-speed/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Guardian declares war on News International</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/14/guardian-declares-war-on-news-international/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/14/guardian-declares-war-on-news-international/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Corp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News of the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Guardian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Under the wily hand of editor Alan Rusbridger, the <em>Guardian</em> has obviously decided to roast News International slowly, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b> from London. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Eels and Sharks swim in murky waters</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/08/the-eels-and-sharks-swim-in-murky-waters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/08/the-eels-and-sharks-swim-in-murky-waters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cronulla Sharks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Tripodi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parramatta eels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney Morning Herald]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good old fashioned investigation into the Parramatta Eels and Cronulla Sharks reveals money laundering.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Exit the Accidental Premier &#8230; enter Della?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/06/exit-the-accidental-premier-enter-della/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/06/exit-the-accidental-premier-enter-della/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Della Bosca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The tumbrils are beginning to roll down Macquarie Street to carry Nathan Rees to a premature execution as Premier of NSW. Meanwhile, a chariot is being polished for Health Minister John Della Bosca.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pubs get lucky with Nathan Rees</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/03/pubs-get-lucky-with-nathan-rees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/03/pubs-get-lucky-with-nathan-rees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian hotels association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Roozendaal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nathan Rees is reportedly ready to ease his crackdown on alcohol-fuelled brawling and anti-social behavior at “hot spot” hotels.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Police Minister shuts down NSW Upper House for winter</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/25/police-minister-shuts-down-nsw-upper-house-for-winter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/25/police-minister-shuts-down-nsw-upper-house-for-winter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Kelly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW Legislative Council has never witnessed anything like it. Overnight the upper house was shut down by Government Ministers and won’t resume for a long winter break of 69 days.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW Shooters&#8217; Party MPs stick up Premier Rees</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/24/nsw-shooters-party-mps-stick-up-premier-rees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/24/nsw-shooters-party-mps-stick-up-premier-rees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shooters party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past two years, NSW Shooters Party MPs, Roy Smith and Robert Brown, have been voting loyally for controversial Labor legislation to secure its passage through the Upper House.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>News Ltd. ink-slingers turn on Malcolm</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/23/news-ltd-ink-slingers-turn-on-malcolm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/23/news-ltd-ink-slingers-turn-on-malcolm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[headlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Limited]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having uncritically and zealously promoted Malcolm Turnbull’s call for the resignation of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan, News Limited’s stable of metropolitan dailies yesterday changed course.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Freo doctor&#8221; blows across Marrickville and Balmain</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/18/freo-doctor-blows-across-marrickville-and-balmain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/18/freo-doctor-blows-across-marrickville-and-balmain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carmel tebbutt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marrickville Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Verity Firth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Community protest is rising in Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Marrickville over the Labor Government’s proposed sale of a heritage-listed school site into 19 apartments. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW Budget designed to save the government not the State</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/nsw-budget-designed-to-save-the-government-not-the-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/nsw-budget-designed-to-save-the-government-not-the-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Roozendaal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW budget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW budget has provided the embattled Rees Government with a grab-it-while-you-can lifeline.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Julia takes aim at The Lodge</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/12/julia-takes-aim-at-the-lodge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/12/julia-takes-aim-at-the-lodge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Speers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This will become known as the week that Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard began her ascent on The Lodge, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Frank Sartor for Premier in NSW: let the buffoonery begin</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/11/frank-sartor-for-premier-in-nsw-let-the-buffoonery-begin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/11/frank-sartor-for-premier-in-nsw-let-the-buffoonery-begin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Sartor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Della Bosca]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Alex Mitchell</b> reports on the absurdity of NSW premiership speculation.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Debus vs Searle: NSW ALP rival sub-ghetto hatred</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/10/debus-vs-searle-nsw-alp-rival-sub-ghetto-hatred/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/10/debus-vs-searle-nsw-alp-rival-sub-ghetto-hatred/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Debus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW ALP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Debus has been given the almost feudal privilege of choosing his own successor.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Newspaper shock horror: Queensland&#8217;s #1 icon is Sir Joh</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/09/newspaper-shock-horror-queenslands-1-icon-is-sir-joh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/09/newspaper-shock-horror-queenslands-1-icon-is-sir-joh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joh Bjelke-Petersen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Townsville Bulletin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Queensland celebrated its 150th birthday as an independent State at the weekend with one News Ltd newspaper profiling 150 icons “who we believe played the greatest role in defining Queensland”, writes Alex Mitchell.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ikin a victim as A Current Affair and Nine sport go to war</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/04/ikin-a-victim-as-a-current-affair-and-nine-sport-go-to-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/04/ikin-a-victim-as-a-current-affair-and-nine-sport-go-to-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Current Affair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Ikin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Channel Nine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Four Corners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wide World of Sport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Channel Nine's <em>A Current Affair</em> and its sports department, <em>Wide World of Sports</em>, are at 10 paces, throwing meat pies at each other..]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bligh Budget: written by Kevin and the banks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/03/bligh-budget-written-by-kevin-and-the-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/03/bligh-budget-written-by-kevin-and-the-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Bligh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qld ALP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anna Bligh's budget was imposed on her newly-elected government by the federal Government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the banks.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Politics in Sydney&#8217;s barmiest borough: Rockdale</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/politics-in-sydneys-barmiest-borough-rockdale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/politics-in-sydneys-barmiest-borough-rockdale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Saravinovski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Sartor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Feeney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rockdale City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While Liberal and Labor councillors are at each other’s throats all over NSW, not so in Rockdale, where they work hand-in-glove.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Linking Rees with Orkopoulos doesn&#8217;t wash</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/linking-rees-with-orkopoulos-doesnt-wash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/linking-rees-with-orkopoulos-doesnt-wash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Sneddon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milton Orkopoulos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW ALP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/linking-rees-with-orkopoulos-doesnt-wash/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some sections of the media are repeating highly damaging allegations that Premier Rees was involved in a Milton Orkopoulos cover-up.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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