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	<title>Crikey &#187; budget deficit</title>
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		<title>Malcolm&#8217;s a naughty boy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/27/malcolms-a-naughty-boy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/27/malcolms-a-naughty-boy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 03:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's no doubt that Malcolm Turnbull should have been there in the House of Representatives when votes were taken.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: hit companies, not welfare, to fix the deficit</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/11/essential-hit-companies-not-welfare-to-fix-the-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/11/essential-hit-companies-not-welfare-to-fix-the-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[company tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[welfare reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Voters would prefer companies and high income earners to pay more tax rather than welfare recipients getting slugged, today's Essential Report shows.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>To keel a Sunrise: shame Crikey shame</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/to-keel-a-sunrise-shame-crikey-shame/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/to-keel-a-sunrise-shame-crikey-shame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queensland floods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunrise]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crikey readers have their say.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Everything&#8217;s up, except the deficit &#8212; and housing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/09/myefo-everythings-up-except-the-deficit-and-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/09/myefo-everythings-up-except-the-deficit-and-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MYEFO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today's Mid-Year Economic Forecast (MYEFO) shows an appreciable acceleration in economic growth this year, but as expected the higher dollar has hit government revenue.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Joyce is only at the extreme end of a nonsensical argument</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/10/joyce-is-only-at-the-extreme-end-of-a-nonsensical-argument/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/10/joyce-is-only-at-the-extreme-end-of-a-nonsensical-argument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barnaby Joyce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Opposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=115524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barnaby Joyce is now a serious problem for Tony Abbott -- but Joyce is only pursuing a dud strategy that seriously undermines the Coalition's economic credentials.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rich unemployed are good news for the budget bottom line</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/07/rich-unemployed-are-good-news-for-the-budget-bottom-line/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/07/rich-unemployed-are-good-news-for-the-budget-bottom-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Possum Comitatus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graph pr0n]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The budget deficit will come in at a much smaller number than is currently being projected. <b>Possum Comitatus</b> explains how.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s deficit dilemma</title>
		<link>http://www.nypost.com/seven/06112009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/inflation_looms__173658.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.nypost.com/seven/06112009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/inflation_looms__173658.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's deficit spending will push up interest rates and weaken the US dollar, say <b>Dick Morris</b> and <b>Eileen McGann</b>, and a massive inflationary storm could be brewing.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Debt and deficit &#8212; off into the future</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/20/debt-and-deficit-off-into-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/20/debt-and-deficit-off-into-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 06:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canberra Calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian prime minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Deficit is the hardest word.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Crikey budget podcast</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/crikey-budget-broadcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/crikey-budget-broadcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 06:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canberra Calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Green, Bernard Keane and the segue chicken discuss all the important and exciting bits of the budget, with bonus ETS!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Budget deficits and the grand hypocrisy of Peter Costello</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/30/budget-deficits-and-the-grand-hypocrisy-of-peter-costello/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/30/budget-deficits-and-the-grand-hypocrisy-of-peter-costello/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus package]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=54376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The biggest public policy issue in Australia at the moment is the size of our budget deficit. The man most responsible is Peter Costello.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Budget countdown: $50b deficit is just the beginning</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/14/budget-countdown-50b-deficit-is-just-the-beginning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/14/budget-countdown-50b-deficit-is-just-the-beginning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Countdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=51106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The hunt for savings within the Commonwealth budget is unlikely to make much of a dent in the looming shortfalls.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>This year the cut and thrust of the Budget is for real</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/this-year-the-cut-and-thrust-of-the-budget-is-for-real/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/this-year-the-cut-and-thrust-of-the-budget-is-for-real/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsay Tanner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This will be the toughest budget to frame since, probably, the recession budgets of the early 1990s, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>PM reluctant to draw a veil over Keating</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/08/pm-reluctant-to-draw-a-veil-over-keating/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/08/pm-reluctant-to-draw-a-veil-over-keating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget measures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leader of the opposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Keating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment in australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is differences of opinion, it appears, that make a Coalition when it comes to election campaign tactics. The last few days have revealed a clear difference in approach between the Liberal Party and the National Party. 

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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why John Howard never made the cover of Euromoney</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/06/27/why-john-howard-never-made-the-cover-of-euromoney/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/06/27/why-john-howard-never-made-the-cover-of-euromoney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[double digit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment rate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Howard’s old boss, Malcolm Fraser, has rejected claims he stopped his treasurer from coming forward with reform proposals. ]]></description>
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