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	<title>Crikey &#187; Charles Richardson</title>
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		<title>Turkey debates a deal with terrorists</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/turkey-debates-a-deal-with-terrorists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/turkey-debates-a-deal-with-terrorists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islamic law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey's government is showing that an "Islamist" party can become a force for democracy and progress, challenging so many of our usual assumptions about Muslims, terrorism and the Middle East.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Europe gets a new constitution &#8212; sort of</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/europe-gets-a-new-constitution-sort-of/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/europe-gets-a-new-constitution-sort-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union consitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisbon treaty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaclav Klaus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The big news in Europe this week is the final ratification of the Lisbon treaty, which provides a new constitutional structure for the European Union. But where's the euroscepticism gone? Has the EU proved its 'socialist plot' claims wrong?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lessons from a new German government</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/lessons-from-a-new-german-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/lessons-from-a-new-german-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent Germany elections have provided a few lessons that Australia could learn. For example, a coalition should be a post-election decision, not a permanent state of affairs. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rio&#8217;s cloud has a silver lining</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/rios-cloud-has-a-silver-lining/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/rios-cloud-has-a-silver-lining/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol and drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug prohibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on drugs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's hard to imagine it at first, but last weekend's carnage in Rio de Janeiro  may actually have one positive result. It may give the world a deadline for coming to our senses about drug prohibition.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>If the boat people did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/if-the-boat-people-did-not-exist-it-would-be-necessary-to-invent-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/if-the-boat-people-did-not-exist-it-would-be-necessary-to-invent-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basque country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe Australia's propensity to beat up on small numbers of helpless refugees has nothing to do with the refugees themselves, but is simply the result of any more significant target for nationalist anger.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>A small cloud on David Cameron&#8217;s horizon</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/a-small-cloud-on-david-camerons-horizon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/a-small-cloud-on-david-camerons-horizon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British MP expenses scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite his progressive positions in many areas, David Cameron is bidding to become the most identifiably upper-class Prime Minister for more than 40 years.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Berlusconi may yet get his day in court</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/berlusconi-may-yet-get-his-day-in-court/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/berlusconi-may-yet-get-his-day-in-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judicial immunity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi is not Italy's head of state -- just its head of government. If the country's minister is a crook, the courts need to be given the opportunity to say so.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Europeans throw Russia an olive branch</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/europeans-throw-russia-an-olive-branch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/europeans-throw-russia-an-olive-branch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Ossetia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Ossetian war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The big political story in Europe is the release of the European Union report on last year's war between Russia and Georgia. Both sides claim a degree of vindication from it.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/europeans-throw-russia-an-olive-branch/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Germans vote peacefully, but not quite contentedly</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/28/germans-vote-peacefully-but-not-quite-contentedly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/28/germans-vote-peacefully-but-not-quite-contentedly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Democrats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The results of the German election indicate Germans are dissatisfied with what they have been offered for so long, and in their calm, orderly way, are saying they would like to try something a bit different.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/28/germans-vote-peacefully-but-not-quite-contentedly/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama running out of Mid-East options</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/obama-running-out-of-mid-east-options/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/obama-running-out-of-mid-east-options/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel Palestinian conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The tone from Washington has changed this year: there is a note of urgency and real rather than manufactured impatience with Israeli policy, notably on the West Bank settlements.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Merkel looks for a narrower coalition</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/merkel-looks-for-a-narrower-coalition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/merkel-looks-for-a-narrower-coalition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Democrats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Germany votes on Sunday, with Christian Democrat chancellor Angela Merkel an unbackable favourite to be returned. But will the liberals distance themselves from the parties of the traditional left?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Norway keeps out the hard Right &#8212; for now</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/16/norway-keeps-out-the-hard-right-for-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/16/norway-keeps-out-the-hard-right-for-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[far Right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The fate of Norway's government is likely not a matter of importance unless you happen to be Norwegian. But what the election revealed about the state of its Opposition is of much more general interest.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW voters: get your form letters ready</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/nsw-voters-get-your-form-letters-ready/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/04/nsw-voters-get-your-form-letters-ready/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electoral boundaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gwydir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[townsville]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The deadline for objections to new NSW electoral boundaries close at 5pm today and the electoral commission is bracing for a last-minute flood of paperwork -- or not.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Malcolm Turnbull&#8217;s Japanese lesson</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/31/malcolm-turnbulls-japanese-lesson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/31/malcolm-turnbulls-japanese-lesson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a local lesson to be learned from the Japanese election result. Like what happens when a party's long-term decline has been masked by one leader's success...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Churches today, political parties tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/26/churches-today-political-parties-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/26/churches-today-political-parties-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British National Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equal Opportunity Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious organisations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conflict is occurring in Victoria between freedom of religion and freedom from discrimination. What counts as a relevant ground for discrimination and what doesn't? It's the state that has to decide.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Baillieu&#8217;s Liberals not keen on new blood</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/21/baillieus-liberals-not-keen-on-new-blood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/21/baillieus-liberals-not-keen-on-new-blood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Fitzherbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Austin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Baillieu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[victorian liberal party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The real scandal surrounding Victorian Liberal pre-selections is not in the challenges, it's in the almost total lack of them.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Death of a hallowed South Korean democrat</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/19/death-of-a-hallowed-south-korean-democrat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/19/death-of-a-hallowed-south-korean-democrat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Dae-Jung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kim Dae-jung's passing parallels the remarkable journey that South Korea has travelled since the Second World War.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Tory experiment worth studying</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/12/a-tory-experiment-worth-studying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/12/a-tory-experiment-worth-studying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British MP expenses scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electoral system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign observers shy away -- with good cause -- from the US's creaky, dysfunctional electoral process. But the British example serves to remind us that primaries are also well-known in Europe.]]></description>
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		<title>New Caledonia: another powder-keg on our doorstep</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/11/new-caledonia-another-powder-keg-on-our-doorstep/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/11/new-caledonia-another-powder-keg-on-our-doorstep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Air Caledonie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Caledonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pacific islands forum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australian media seem to have some blind spots concerning our near neighbours, like New Caledonia, where recent riots have a political bent.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Rule: historical epoch or chapter of accidents?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/05/liberal-rule-historical-epoch-or-chapter-of-accidents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/05/liberal-rule-historical-epoch-or-chapter-of-accidents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SBS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite what you may have seen on SBS series <em>Liberal Rule</em>, the rise and fall of the Howard government did not represent big shifts in national sentiment, writes <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor and the death of bipartisanship</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/30/sotomayor-and-the-death-of-bipartisanship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/30/sotomayor-and-the-death-of-bipartisanship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Supreme Court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is the Republican party's lack of support for the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme court, and their thinly veiled racism against her, a form of political revenge?]]></description>
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		<title>Howard turns 70: age shall not weary him</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/27/howard-turns-70-age-shall-not-weary-him/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/27/howard-turns-70-age-shall-not-weary-him/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian politicians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The idea that a person is too old for political leadership at 70 is relatively recent, and is still unknown in many parts of the world. ]]></description>
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		<title>Biden goes off-piste&#8230; with Obama&#8217;s backing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/24/biden-goes-off-pistewith-obamas-backing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/24/biden-goes-off-pistewith-obamas-backing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden's reputation for outspokeness is being used by Barack Obama to advance his administration's interests in the "transcaucasus", says <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Xinjiang: more than just &#8220;ethnic tension&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/13/xinjiang-more-than-just-ethnic-tension/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/13/xinjiang-more-than-just-ethnic-tension/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China riots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uighurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xinjiang]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Uighurs are not engaged in some context-free ethnic rivalry; they are protesting against the threat of becoming a minority in their own land.]]></description>
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		<title>Another spin of the wheel for SA Libs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/09/another-spin-of-the-wheel-for-sa-libs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/09/another-spin-of-the-wheel-for-sa-libs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isobel Redmond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SA Liberals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not much has changed in South Australia since Chris Kenny described the state's politics 12 years ago as "Melrose Place on ugly pills".]]></description>
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