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		<title>Attorney-General&#8217;s Department: hiding a data retention gargoyle?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/attorney-generals-department-hiding-a-data-retention-gargoyle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/attorney-generals-department-hiding-a-data-retention-gargoyle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attorney-General's Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data retention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[office of parliamentary counsel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Wilkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Ludlam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate Estimates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Questions continue to grow about the extent of the Attorney-General Department's work on data retention, and whether it is hiding it from scrutiny. Is AGD quietly developing legislation on data retention?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Towards confrontation: future of Catholic abuse protocols in doubt</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/towards-confrontation-future-of-catholic-abuse-protocols-in-doubt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/towards-confrontation-future-of-catholic-abuse-protocols-in-doubt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Knott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denis hart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Pell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melbourne Response]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[royal commission into child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Towards Healing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Will the Catholic Church's controversial protocols for dealing with sexual abuse claims survive a royal commission? The man in charge of the Church's response says he expects a new, more independent system.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/towards-confrontation-future-of-catholic-abuse-protocols-in-doubt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Education union&#8217;s $1m Greens splash drives division in ranks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/education-unions-1m-greens-splash-drives-division-in-ranks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/education-unions-1m-greens-splash-drives-division-in-ranks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2013 federal election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Tertiary Education Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Greens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=379015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Tertiary Education Union will donate $1 million to help Greens candidates in the federal election campaign. But some in the union -- and certainly in Labor -- aren't happy.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/education-unions-1m-greens-splash-drives-division-in-ranks/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s scrappy pre-election cabinet: who&#8217;ll serve with him?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/rudds-scrappy-pre-election-cabinet-wholl-serve-with-him/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/rudds-scrappy-pre-election-cabinet-wholl-serve-with-him/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378700</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd will need to appoint a caretaker cabinet if he becomes prime minister again. <em>Crikey</em> gazed into the crystal ball to pick who's left to serve with him.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/rudds-scrappy-pre-election-cabinet-wholl-serve-with-him/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Through porous borders, a new world order flows</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/through-porous-borders-a-new-world-order-flows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/through-porous-borders-a-new-world-order-flows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria uprising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turkish protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Turkey, Greece, Syria, Brazil, Afghanistan, Obama, Cameron, Assange ... something is shifting, as borders of even first-tier nations become porous and action once off the table now is very much on.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/through-porous-borders-a-new-world-order-flows/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The constitutional conundrum facing Rudd</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/anne-twomey-the-constitutional-conundrum-facing-rudd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/anne-twomey-the-constitutional-conundrum-facing-rudd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quentin bryce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the constitution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378961</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd would need to consult constitutional lawyers before embarking on a return to leadership. <b>Professor Anne Twomey</b> examines various legal scenarios that might follow on from a Rudd victory in caucus.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/20/anne-twomey-the-constitutional-conundrum-facing-rudd/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>One handout too many: General Motors should go back to Detroit</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/19/one-handout-too-many-general-motors-should-go-back-to-detroit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/19/one-handout-too-many-general-motors-should-go-back-to-detroit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automotive manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Motors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Devereux]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378668</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's time to end automotive assistance. General Motors' demand for a wage cut shows this is one industry not worth keeping, say <em>Crikey</em>'s <b>Bernard Keane</b> and <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/19/one-handout-too-many-general-motors-should-go-back-to-detroit/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>iSentia index: will K-Rudd get to the top spot?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/19/isentia-index-will-k-rudd-get-to-the-top-spot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/19/isentia-index-will-k-rudd-get-to-the-top-spot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Chalmers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iSentia Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MEDIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asylum Seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iSentia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone's talking about Kevin Rudd, no one is talking about policy, as the Labor Party keeps sinking.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/19/isentia-index-will-k-rudd-get-to-the-top-spot/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Barnaby and Albo hug hides division on local govt</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/19/mayne-barnaby-and-albo-hug-hides-division-on-local-govt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/19/mayne-barnaby-and-albo-hug-hides-division-on-local-govt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barnaby Joyce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[referenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[referendum on local government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The major parties have agreed to push the "yes" case on constitutional recognition of local government, right? Well it's not so simple, as delegates at a large local government pow-wow in Canberra learnt first-hand.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/19/mayne-barnaby-and-albo-hug-hides-division-on-local-govt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Senate committee rejects transparency on export finance billions</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/senate-committee-rejects-transparency-on-export-financing-billions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/senate-committee-rejects-transparency-on-export-financing-billions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Export Finance and Insurance Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lee rihannon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senate committees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The federal government's controversial Export Finance and Insurance Corporate had escaped reforms aimed at exposing its inner workings to public scrutiny.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/senate-committee-rejects-transparency-on-export-financing-billions/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Coalition split on gay exemption aged-care providers don&#8217;t want</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/church-owned-aged-care-providers-dont-want-exemption-from-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/church-owned-aged-care-providers-dont-want-exemption-from-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harley Dennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aged care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aged care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Coalition]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>UPDATED:</b> The Coalition wants to ensure church-run aged care providers can deny beds to gay people. But the organisations tell <em>Crikey</em> they don't discriminate -- and don't want the protection to do it.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/church-owned-aged-care-providers-dont-want-exemption-from-laws/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Piss and wind: Jones joins fight against pee-shifting turbines</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/piss-and-wind-jones-joins-fight-against-pee-shifting-turbines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/piss-and-wind-jones-joins-fight-against-pee-shifting-turbines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ENVIRONMENT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind turbines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The landed gentry gathered on Parliament House’s Federation Mall this morning to blame wind farms for falling property prices and urinary disruption.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/piss-and-wind-jones-joins-fight-against-pee-shifting-turbines/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Feeling around in the dark, Walsh finds more shocking art</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/feeling-around-in-the-dark-walsh-finds-more-shocking-art/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/feeling-around-in-the-dark-walsh-finds-more-shocking-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Saville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arts festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dark Mofo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Walsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MONA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hobart's Dark Mofo arts festival, which runs till the Winter Solstice (June 23), is a celebration of the dark through large-scale public art, food and music, as well as "light and noise".]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/feeling-around-in-the-dark-walsh-finds-more-shocking-art/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>We need to build it, but will they come? Private infrastructure problems</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/we-need-to-build-it-but-will-they-come-private-infrastructure-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/we-need-to-build-it-but-will-they-come-private-infrastructure-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Robb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Baird]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toll roads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westconnex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Poor assessment of risk, and motorists' loathing of tolls, has long made infrastructure funding problematic. The NSW government is trying for a new approach.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/18/we-need-to-build-it-but-will-they-come-private-infrastructure-problems/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Albo fires up QT with infrastructure smackdown rant</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/albo-fires-up-qt-with-infrastructure-smackdown-rant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/albo-fires-up-qt-with-infrastructure-smackdown-rant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Pyne]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Infrastructure minister Anthony Albanese enlivened a deathly question time today with a gold standard rant.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/albo-fires-up-qt-with-infrastructure-smackdown-rant/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: leadership the problem as Labor flatlines</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/essential-leadership-the-problem-as-labor-flatlines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/essential-leadership-the-problem-as-labor-flatlines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asylum Seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting intention]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=378012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voter disenchantment with Labor now focuses on the leadership issue, despite the government's attempts to focus on education and disability.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/essential-leadership-the-problem-as-labor-flatlines/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Helen Hughes got it wrong, but not for want of trying</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/rundle-helen-hughes-got-it-wrong-but-not-for-want-of-trying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/rundle-helen-hughes-got-it-wrong-but-not-for-want-of-trying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal land management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal land rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cape York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helen Hughes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Helen Hughes was an economist for the World Bank and a proponent of imposing home ownership on Aboriginal Australians -- a ludicrous notion. But Hughes worked hard, even if she got most things wrong.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;Human booby trap&#8217; Grace Collier obsessed with PM cleavage</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/human-booby-trap-grace-collier-obsessed-with-pm-cleavage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/human-booby-trap-grace-collier-obsessed-with-pm-cleavage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Gosford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eva Cox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace collier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=377933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Radio National on a Sunday morning is not where you would normally expect a debate over the Prime Minister's cleavage. But commentator Grace Collier kicked off a panel discussion with it yesterday morning.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>If Feeney becomes Batman, who will be Robin?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/if-feeney-becomes-batman-who-will-be-robin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/if-feeney-becomes-batman-who-will-be-robin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Batman preselection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david feeney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=377927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If Labor Senator David Feeney does win preselection for the lower-house seat of Batman, who will replace him in the Senate? A Right-leaning ALP woman is apparently favoured ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>An ex-ambassador looks at &#8216;turning back the boats&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/an-ex-ambassador-looks-at-turning-back-the-boats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/17/an-ex-ambassador-looks-at-turning-back-the-boats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seeker policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asylum Seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Morrison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stop the boats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=377913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott's policy of turning back asylum seeker boats "when it is safe to do so" will endanger lives and crush navy morale, writes former Australian ambassador to Poland and Cambodia <b>Tony Kevin</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s supine reaction to our surveillance planet</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/14/australias-supine-reaction-to-our-surveillance-planet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/14/australias-supine-reaction-to-our-surveillance-planet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Snowden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Dreyfus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Security Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSA surveillance scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PRISM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Pilgrim]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=377586</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While other US allies demand answers on the Edward Snowden revelations about mass US surveillance of private citizens, the Australian government wants the whole thing to go away and tells us there's nothing to worry about. Fail.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Liberal links to anti-wind farm fight multiply</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/14/liberal-links-to-anti-wind-farm-fight-multiply/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/14/liberal-links-to-anti-wind-farm-fight-multiply/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jeanette newman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maurice newman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wnd farms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=377596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeanette Newman, the wife of Tony Abbott's business tsar, is involved in organising a rally against wind farms in NSW.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/14/liberal-links-to-anti-wind-farm-fight-multiply/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Order in the House: bush MPs lost in the political wilderness</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/14/order-in-the-house-bush-mps-lost-in-the-political-wilderness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/14/order-in-the-house-bush-mps-lost-in-the-political-wilderness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bush communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house of representatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ORDER IN THE HOUSE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural and regional Australia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=376523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's time to stop beating around the bush. Our analysis finds country MPs are much less likely to occupy positions of power in Parliament than their city-slicker cousins -- even accounting for population differences. Bond University journalism students <b>Leilani Gaze</b> and <b>Adam Braksator</b> explain.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fair Work decision a boon to working parents</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/14/fair-work-decision-a-boon-to-working-parents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/14/fair-work-decision-a-boon-to-working-parents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Seage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parental leave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women in the workplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work life balance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=377567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fair Work Commission has ruled that a Melbourne IT worker should be allowed to return to work part time following her parental leave. Will the decision have a wider impact on working parents?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Order in the House: rural MPs getting a raw deal?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/14/order-in-the-house-rural-mps-getting-a-raw-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/06/14/order-in-the-house-rural-mps-getting-a-raw-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ORDER IN THE HOUSE]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=371347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bond University journalism students <b>Leilani Gaze</b> and <b>Adam Braksator</b> ask: are rural Australians not represented enough in Parliament?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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