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		<title>Imagine, a fantasy budget for us all</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/18/crikey-says-imagine-a-fantasy-budget-for-us-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/18/crikey-says-imagine-a-fantasy-budget-for-us-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 03:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine there's no polling, it's easy if you try. No party politics, ahead only blue sky ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>What would a real economic reform budget look like?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/17/what-would-a-real-economic-reform-budget-look-like/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/17/what-would-a-real-economic-reform-budget-look-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 03:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon Price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What would a hardcore economic reform budget look like, stripped of political self-interest? It depends on what your economic priorities are.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Class warfare back on the agenda, but is that a bad thing?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2012/05/16/is-the-post-budget-class-warfare-discussion-helpful-for-public-health/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2012/05/16/is-the-post-budget-class-warfare-discussion-helpful-for-public-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warfare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Coalition were quick to dismiss the federal budget as "class warfare." While issues regarding class should be approached cautiously, notions of equality need to taken very seriously, writes <b>Gavin Mooney</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cultural policy in limbo &#8230; which might give the space needed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/11/cultural-policy-in-limbo-which-might-give-the-space-needed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/11/cultural-policy-in-limbo-which-might-give-the-space-needed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 03:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Eltham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arts fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Cultural Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=290291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The federal government's decision to delay the National Cultural Policy is disappointing. But it is also an opportunity to deliver a better, broader policy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Milne reprises key themes in budget reply</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/11/milne-reprises-key-themes-in-budget-reply/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/11/milne-reprises-key-themes-in-budget-reply/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 03:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Reply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine Milne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=290337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Christine Milne has reiterated her commitment to moving the economic focus to households and quality of life in her budget reply.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The verdict on the budget</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/11/the-verdict-on-the-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/11/the-verdict-on-the-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 03:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Richard Farmer’s chunky bits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=290249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those who can't wait until Monday here's a little federal budget polling preview.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Foreign languages? Try harder Tony</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/11/crikey-says-foreign-languages-try-harder-tony/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/11/crikey-says-foreign-languages-try-harder-tony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 03:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Reply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott budget reply]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=290254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You'll notice we didn't commission a piece on Tony Abbott's foreign languages policy floated in his budget reply last night. The single piece of detailed policy the opposition leader floated, that is.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/11/crikey-says-foreign-languages-try-harder-tony/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Abbott&#8217;s budget reply: all values, no costings</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/11/abbotts-budget-reply-all-values-no-costings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/11/abbotts-budget-reply-all-values-no-costings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber Jamieson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Reply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget reply address]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=290245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b><em>Crikey</em> media wrap</b>: Last night Tony Abbott gave his budget reply speech, arguing a Coalition government would focus on business and find an additional $50 billion in savings. Just how his government would find these promised savings wasn't specified.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/11/abbotts-budget-reply-all-values-no-costings/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>The surplus years are here podcast</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/10/the-surplus-years-are-here-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/10/the-surplus-years-are-here-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 05:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=290225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In her final Canberra Calling as Crikey editor, Sophie Black joins Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane in discussing the politics and the fallout of this year's the federal budget.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Labor handouts wedge the Coalition</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/10/labor-hands-out-the-wedges-coalition-gratefully-accepts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/10/labor-hands-out-the-wedges-coalition-gratefully-accepts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 02:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class welfare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=290029</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For once Labor has managed to wedge the opposition on handouts, and the opposition was happy to help.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/10/labor-hands-out-the-wedges-coalition-gratefully-accepts/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>Aid trimmed in budget &#8230; first cut may not be the deepest</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/10/aid-trimmed-in-budget-first-cut-may-not-be-the-deepest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/10/aid-trimmed-in-budget-first-cut-may-not-be-the-deepest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 02:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ausaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getup]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=290040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where Australia provides core funding for vaccination programs and malaria treatments, cutting back on those savings will have an immediate impact, writes international public health lecturer <b>Joel Negin</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/10/aid-trimmed-in-budget-first-cut-may-not-be-the-deepest/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The federal budget as investment strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/10/the-federal-budget-as-investment-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/10/the-federal-budget-as-investment-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 02:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comments & corrections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289993</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crikey readers have their say.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Five people who won the federal budget lobbying game</title>
		<link>http://www.thepowerindex.com.au/and-the-winner-is/five-people-who-won-the-federal-budget-lobbying-game/201205091339</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepowerindex.com.au/and-the-winner-is/five-people-who-won-the-federal-budget-lobbying-game/201205091339#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lobbyists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So whose lobbying power really struck this year’s federal budget? <em>The Power Index</em> picks the most powerful, and it's not who you might expect (think anti-smoking, disability and micro-brewies).  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tales from the Kennedy Room: the morning after the night before</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/tales-from-the-kennedy-room-the-morning-after-the-night-before/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/tales-from-the-kennedy-room-the-morning-after-the-night-before/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kennedy room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Matilda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Ltd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Liver carnage was again on the menu last night as Kingston came alive to the bitching of hundreds of hacks and advisers commiserating their poor life choices.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/tales-from-the-kennedy-room-the-morning-after-the-night-before/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fiscal lessons for a new budget era</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/fiscal-lessons-for-a-new-budget-era/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/fiscal-lessons-for-a-new-budget-era/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are lessons to be learned from the Budget, not all of them negative for Labor.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/fiscal-lessons-for-a-new-budget-era/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>Greece, fear and loathing on agenda, although falling $A good news</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/greece-fear-and-loathing-on-agenda-although-falling-a-good-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/greece-fear-and-loathing-on-agenda-although-falling-a-good-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greece bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece debt crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What confronted the Treasurer this morning contained a sliver of good news, an Australian dollar weakening towards parity.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/greece-fear-and-loathing-on-agenda-although-falling-a-good-news/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>IT: the opportunities, some lost, from a low-tech budget</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/it-the-opportunities-some-lost-from-a-low-tech-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/it-the-opportunities-some-lost-from-a-low-tech-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stilgherrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[information technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Network]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looked at through the tech industry's glasses -- note that "tech" these days means only information technology -- the budget seems benign. But there is some opportunity.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/it-the-opportunities-some-lost-from-a-low-tech-budget/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Foreign aid: losing points at the UN for aid target delay</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/foreign-aid-losing-points-at-the-un-for-aid-target-delay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/foreign-aid-losing-points-at-the-un-for-aid-target-delay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey Intern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gareth Evans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Delaying Australia's aid commitments could further compromise the already tenuous bid for a seat on the UN Security Council, foreign affairs commentators claim. <b>David Donaldson</b> reports.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/foreign-aid-losing-points-at-the-un-for-aid-target-delay/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Health: Michael Marmot and the other budget lock-up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/time-to-overhaul-the-health-budget-lock-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/time-to-overhaul-the-health-budget-lock-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Sweet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACOSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Health and Ageing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newstart allowance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Health Association of Australia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night as journalists filed out of the Department of Health and Ageing budget lock-up, a crowd was gathering for an evening with someone billed as one of the "rock stars" of global health.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the economists: rating Swan&#8217;s return to surplus</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/ask-the-economists-rating-swans-return-to-surplus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/ask-the-economists-rating-swans-return-to-surplus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Economists Craig James, Shane Oliver, Stephen Koukoulas, Saul Eslake and Stephen Walters weigh in on Wayne Swan's budget.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/ask-the-economists-rating-swans-return-to-surplus/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The arts: dividend squeeze, but cash for Wolverine and galleries</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/the-arts-divided-squeeze-but-cash-for-wolverine-and-galleries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/the-arts-divided-squeeze-but-cash-for-wolverine-and-galleries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Eltham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MEDIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arts funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wolverine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 budget was largely neutral for the arts, with a couple of bright spots for SBS and the National Portrait Gallery.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mayne: accounting rorts aplenty with Future Fund and NBN</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/mayne-accounting-rorts-aplenty-with-future-fund-and-nbn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/mayne-accounting-rorts-aplenty-with-future-fund-and-nbn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wayne Swan has never actually delivered his own budget surplus during five years as Treasurer, so his $1.5 billion prediction for 2012-13 starts life with little credibility.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Welfare: does buying votes really work?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/welfare-does-buying-votes-really-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/welfare-does-buying-votes-really-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eva Cox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Will the Labor brand receive a major boost from this budget? Doubtful, as its main claim is based on its expanded cash grants.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/welfare-does-buying-votes-really-work/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Defence: ADF has many problems, budget isn&#8217;t one of them</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/defence-adf-has-many-problems-budget-isnt-one-of-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/defence-adf-has-many-problems-budget-isnt-one-of-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some paint a bleak picture of risky cuts to our defence forces as a result of last night's budget announcement, but the only risk should be towards the dead wood in the portfolio, writes <b>Eric Palmer</b>, a Defence writer and analyst.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Swan the appeaser</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/swan-the-appeaser/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/09/swan-the-appeaser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comments & corrections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[file sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=289688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crikey readers have their say.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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