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	<title>Crikey &#187; Bernard Keane</title>
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		<title>Copenhagen the Libs&#8217; MacGuffin for total immolation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/copenhagen-the-libs-macguffin-for-total-immolation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/copenhagen-the-libs-macguffin-for-total-immolation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions target]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Macfarlane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penny Wong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Copenhagen is the reason the government insists that the CPRS issue must be resolved now. Copenhagen is the reason many in the coalition think the CPRS issue <em>shouldn't</em> be resolved now. Both are wrong.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Coal power lobby mines new lows in late compo scramble</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/coal-power-lobby-mines-new-lows-in-late-compo-scramble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/coal-power-lobby-mines-new-lows-in-late-compo-scramble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coal power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Power PLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TRUenergy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign multinationals ramped up their rhetoric yesterday in a desperate attempt to scam further compensation from taxpayers under the CPRS for their coal-fired power generation assets.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/coal-power-lobby-mines-new-lows-in-late-compo-scramble/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Turnbull&#8217;s climate crunch is coming</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/liberals-need-a-climate-deal-anything-else-rains-havoc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/liberals-need-a-climate-deal-anything-else-rains-havoc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull's only real option is to reject Rudd's CPRS and hand victory to Minchin and his colleagues.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/liberals-need-a-climate-deal-anything-else-rains-havoc/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>86</slash:comments>
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		<title>To those who say &#8220;beaudy nuke&#8221;: why should taxpayers suffer?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/to-those-who-say-beaudy-nuke-why-should-taxpayers-suffer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/to-those-who-say-beaudy-nuke-why-should-taxpayers-suffer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why should taxpayers fund the most expensive and slowest energy option when so many alternatives are significantly cheaper and pose less financial risk?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/to-those-who-say-beaudy-nuke-why-should-taxpayers-suffer/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>The nuclear option: too slow, too costly</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/the-nuclear-option-part-1-too-slow-too-costly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/the-nuclear-option-part-1-too-slow-too-costly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not radioactivity or scare campaigns that are the nuclear industry's biggest problem, it's the maths: the numbers show that for decades to come, it will offer less and less of a solution to climate change, and simply takes too long and costs too much to develop.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/the-nuclear-option-part-1-too-slow-too-costly/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>202</slash:comments>
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		<title>Olympic establishment mobilises to shout down Crawford Report</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/olympic-establishment-mobilises-to-shout-down-crawford-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/olympic-establishment-mobilises-to-shout-down-crawford-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Olympic Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crawford Review of Australian Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Coates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympic funding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It didn’t take long for the Olympic establishment to respond to the clear and present threat posed by yesterday’s Crawford Report. Behold the fury of a parasitic industry facing the threat that taxpayers might stop handing them money.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/olympic-establishment-mobilises-to-shout-down-crawford-report/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Either way, Turnbull&#8217;s on eggshells</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/if-the-cprs-doesnt-get-turnbull-his-party-will/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/if-the-cprs-doesnt-get-turnbull-his-party-will/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change sceptics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull is caught in a pincer movement between Liberal conservatives and Kevin Rudd -- and both appear determined to destroy him.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/if-the-cprs-doesnt-get-turnbull-his-party-will/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd is drowning on boat people</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/when-it-comes-to-the-boat-people-issue-rudd-is-drowning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/when-it-comes-to-the-boat-people-issue-rudd-is-drowning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceanic viking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[He may have got a bounce in the polls today, but the Prime Minister’s handling of the <em>Oceanic Viking</em> issue has been singularly inept.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/when-it-comes-to-the-boat-people-issue-rudd-is-drowning/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sport funding torn between going for gold and going for guts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/sport-funding-torn-between-going-for-gold-and-going-for-guts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/sport-funding-torn-between-going-for-gold-and-going-for-guts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian sports commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crawford Review of Australian Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Coates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kate ellis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[olympic games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sports funding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The long-awaited Crawford Review of Australian sport has called the bluff of successive Australian governments and proposed a re-weighting of sports funding away from elite Olympic sports toward grassroots participation.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/sport-funding-torn-between-going-for-gold-and-going-for-guts/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sorry, but Kevin and Malcolm pulled it off</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/sorry-but-kevin-and-malcolm-pulled-it-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/sorry-but-kevin-and-malcolm-pulled-it-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgotten Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national apology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speeches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well done to both Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull, who this morning made excellent speeches in Parliament's Great Hall, to representatives of the Forgotten Generation.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/sorry-but-kevin-and-malcolm-pulled-it-off/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the warning for investors from the big polluters?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/wheres-the-warning-for-investors-from-the-big-polluters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/wheres-the-warning-for-investors-from-the-big-polluters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Climate Justice Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Conservation Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bluescope Steel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caltex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Tinto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[woodside]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some of Australia’s biggest polluters continue to say one thing in public about the CPRS and tell their shareholders another. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/wheres-the-warning-for-investors-from-the-big-polluters/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Take your CPRS and shove it</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/keane-im-sick-of-the-cprs-to-hell-with-you-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/keane-im-sick-of-the-cprs-to-hell-with-you-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/keane-im-sick-of-the-cprs-to-hell-with-you-all/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Bernard Keane</b> is sick of Penny Wong's tedious droning, Kevin Rudd's sanctimony, Coalition climate denialists, Barnaby Joyce, rentseekers and everything else tied up in the never-ending CPRS debate.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/keane-im-sick-of-the-cprs-to-hell-with-you-all/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>122</slash:comments>
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		<title>Back from the dead: Turnbull&#8217;s TPVs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/turnbull-brings-temporary-visas-back-from-the-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/turnbull-brings-temporary-visas-back-from-the-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temporary protection visa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temporary visa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/turnbull-brings-temporary-visas-back-from-the-dead/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull has announced that Temporary Protection Visas would be back under a Coalition Government. But, putting aside their humanitarian impact, all the evidence is that TPVs don't actually work.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/turnbull-brings-temporary-visas-back-from-the-dead/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>59</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;Stronger democracy&#8217; gives way to strong-arm democracy in NSW</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/stronger-democracy-gives-way-to-strong-arm-democracy-in-nsw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/stronger-democracy-gives-way-to-strong-arm-democracy-in-nsw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compulsory voting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW electoral commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/stronger-democracy-gives-way-to-strong-arm-democracy-in-nsw/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NSW government agencies will be collating the private data of NSW citizens and providing it to the NSW Electoral Commission to automatically update the electoral roll. There’ll be no opting out; you will have no choice.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>There&#8217;s good news and also good news on jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/theres-good-news-and-also-good-news-on-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/theres-good-news-and-also-good-news-on-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment figures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment rate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There's mixed -- but mostly good -- news in today’s unemployment data. Unemployment remained steady in trend terms, but underemployment is up across most age groups, and there was a small fall in hours worked.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Calling TRUenergy&#8217;s CPRS bluff</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/calling-truenergys-cprs-bluff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/calling-truenergys-cprs-bluff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australian Conservation Foundation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment Victoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power generators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TRUenergy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a peculiar distinction between what large polluters like TRUEnergy say in their quest for additional compensation, and what they tell key financial stakeholders like customers and shareholders.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW to keep draining the life out of the Snowy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/nsw-government-shrugs-over-the-snowy-river/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/nsw-government-shrugs-over-the-snowy-river/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inter-Governmental Agreement to save the Snowy River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snowy Hydro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snowy River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW government has indicated it will continue to draw water off the Snowy River, despite extensive evidence the river is nearer to degradation than ever.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lending figures vindicate RBA&#8217;s interest rate strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/lending-figures-vindicate-rbas-interest-rate-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/lending-figures-vindicate-rbas-interest-rate-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lending figures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s ABS lending figures contain some good news for the health of financial markets, and a partial vindication of the RBA's interest rate strategy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd ducks again: book import slug stays</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/in-terms-of-books-its-a-less-than-pirfect-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/in-terms-of-books-its-a-less-than-pirfect-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[craig emerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parallel imports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publishing industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So we retain parallel import restrictions on books. Those of us who don’t buy our books online will continue to pay too much, with the bulk of that extra cost going to overseas authors and publishers.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>45</slash:comments>
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		<title>Climate change: the Coalition&#8217;s new Hansonism</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/10/the-coalition-need-howards-pragmatism-on-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/10/the-coalition-need-howards-pragmatism-on-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4 corners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change sceptics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One Nation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pauline Hanson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There's a number of similarities between Howard-era Hansonism and climate denialism, but the biggest similarity is that both mean big trouble for the Coalition.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>193</slash:comments>
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		<title>GM corn still approved here despite Europe, Kiwi concerns</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/10/gm-corn-still-approved-here-despite-europe-kiwi-concerns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/10/gm-corn-still-approved-here-despite-europe-kiwi-concerns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetically modified]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetically modified food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high lysine corn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monsanto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A genetically modified variety of corn remains approved for use in Australia, despite the withdrawal of applications for approval in Europe and serious concerns about its assessment raised by a New Zealand university research team.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>ABC board no longer in the orbit of Planet Janet</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/10/abc-board-no-longer-in-the-orbit-of-planet-janet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/10/abc-board-no-longer-in-the-orbit-of-planet-janet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet Albrechtsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Windschuttle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Right-wing commentator Janet Albrechtsen, a controversial appointee by the Howard government, will not be reappointed to the ABC Board when her term expires in February. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Newspoll and The Oz: a predictability problem</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/newspoll-and-the-oz-a-predictability-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/newspoll-and-the-oz-a-predictability-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AC Neilsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Downfall meme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Sheridan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lenore Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspoll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Australian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week's negative <b>Newspoll</b> results in <em>The Oz</em> about Rudd's leadership demonstrates how it’s not merely politicians who try to sell us narratives. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd and the rentseekers: climate for sale</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/rudd-could-be-a-great-leader-on-climate-change-if-he-actually-tried/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/rudd-could-be-a-great-leader-on-climate-change-if-he-actually-tried/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change sceptics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the Prime Minister is so angry about the efforts of denialists to derail action on climate change, here's a suggestion: stop giving them taxpayers' money.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Memo Rudd: an asylum solution</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/memo-to-pm-re-oceanic-viking-subject-gamebreaker-option/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/memo-to-pm-re-oceanic-viking-subject-gamebreaker-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceanic viking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/memo-to-pm-re-oceanic-viking-subject-gamebreaker-option/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Bernard Keane</b> offers the Prime Minister a few thoughts on how to resolve the Oceanic Viking stand-off.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/memo-to-pm-re-oceanic-viking-subject-gamebreaker-option/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>355</slash:comments>
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