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	<title>Crikey &#187; budgets</title>
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		<title>Never mind ABC programs, feel our values</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/17/never-mind-abc-programs-feel-our-values/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/17/never-mind-abc-programs-feel-our-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Scott]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Managing Director of the ABC Mark Scott  sent this email to ABC employees this morning...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>ABC staff hit by global financial crisis?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/06/abc-staff-hit-by-global-financial-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/06/abc-staff-hit-by-global-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Scott]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ABC has withdrawn a 4% pay increase offer made to staff, citing a "dramatic change to economic conditions", writes <b>Margaret Simons</b>.]]></description>
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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>Rudd&#8217;s stimulus package divides the pack</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/09/rudds-stimulus-package-divides-the-pack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/09/rudds-stimulus-package-divides-the-pack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We’re in the middle of the most perverse economic debate in years, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/09/rudds-stimulus-package-divides-the-pack/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW Premier&#8217;s mini-budget is a mega-spin</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/11/nsw-premiers-mini-budget-is-a-mega-spin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/11/nsw-premiers-mini-budget-is-a-mega-spin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Laughably, Premier Nathan Rees’s NSW Government is calling it a "mini-budget", It’s more like a MEGA budget, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/11/nsw-premiers-mini-budget-is-a-mega-spin/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>What was the RBA advice on guaranteeing deposits?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/21/what-was-the-rba-advice-on-guaranteeing-deposits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/21/what-was-the-rba-advice-on-guaranteeing-deposits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus package]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The predictable consequence of the Government intervening in the financial market to guarantee loans and deposits – that those not afforded the same guarantee are competitively disadvantaged – didn’t take long to emerge, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The reckless stimulus package we didn’t need</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/15/the-reckless-stimulus-package-we-didnt-need/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/15/the-reckless-stimulus-package-we-didnt-need/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit crunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slowdown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What on earth is the Rudd Government doing blowing $10 billion in largely unproductive welfare payments? asks <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/15/the-reckless-stimulus-package-we-didnt-need/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Costello&#8217;s appalling record on Indigenous spending</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/17/costellos-appalling-record-on-indigenous-spending/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/17/costellos-appalling-record-on-indigenous-spending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taxation revenue increases as economies grow. But similarly, Indigenous affairs budgets should increase in both real and percentage terms as government budgets grow. Under Costello, they shrunk, writes <b>Chris Graham</b>.

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		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/17/costellos-appalling-record-on-indigenous-spending/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time again for the debt truck?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/04/time-again-for-the-debt-truck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/04/time-again-for-the-debt-truck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The financial pages made for gloomy reading today and there’s one disturbing theme across the litany of bad news: excessive debt, writes <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The spin starts here: a &#8220;fixing the roof&#8221; budget</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/13/the-spin-starts-here-a-fixing-the-roof-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/13/the-spin-starts-here-a-fixing-the-roof-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget 08]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Treasurer Wayne Swan says that tonight's budget will be "unashamedly" about the "long-term". Politicians talk "long-term" when the "short-term" looks ugly, writes <b>Trevor Cook</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/13/the-spin-starts-here-a-fixing-the-roof-budget/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conflicted Keating&#8217;s retro-analysis does him no favours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/06/conflicted-keatings-retro-analysis-does-him-no-favours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/06/conflicted-keatings-retro-analysis-does-him-no-favours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Brumby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Keating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although he is a national living treasure, Paul Keating has done himself no good by weighing into the war between Premier Morris Iemma and the NSW Labor Party, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/06/conflicted-keatings-retro-analysis-does-him-no-favours/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>This razor gang might just be a cut above the rest</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/07/this-razor-gang-might-just-be-a-cut-above-the-rest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/07/this-razor-gang-might-just-be-a-cut-above-the-rest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsay Tanner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The warning that carers’ bonuses may be scrapped in the Budget is only the first of what are likely to be a number of razor slash stories between now and Budget night, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/07/this-razor-gang-might-just-be-a-cut-above-the-rest/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>John Winston Howard: The highlights</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/25/john-winston-howard-the-highlights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/25/john-winston-howard-the-highlights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disappointed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hawke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[r nicholls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Howard biographer Wayne Errington lays out the highs and lows of a remarkable political career. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tax promise will have no impact on the November rate rise</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/18/tax-promise-will-have-no-impact-on-the-november-rate-rise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/18/tax-promise-will-have-no-impact-on-the-november-rate-rise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate hike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[massive tax cuts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The expected interest rate hike in November will be the result of the tax cuts announced in the May Budget, together with other well documented issues that are adding to inflation, writes Stephen Koukoulas.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/18/tax-promise-will-have-no-impact-on-the-november-rate-rise/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Brent: Cut tax then wait six weeks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/16/brent-cut-tax-then-wait-six-weeks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/16/brent-cut-tax-then-wait-six-weeks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election campaigns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[polling day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Handing down tax policy on day one of the campaign is a novel approach. What’s that about? Here’s one possible explanation, writes Peter Brent.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/16/brent-cut-tax-then-wait-six-weeks/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Exposing the federal and state accounting rorts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/10/exposing-the-federal-and-state-accounting-rorts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/10/exposing-the-federal-and-state-accounting-rorts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disingenuous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial assets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state governments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Costello was back in the Parliament pushing the big lie yesterday – that the Commonwealth under John Howard “reduced its debt from $96 billion to zero”. In fact, they owe $50 billion, writes Stephen Mayne.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/10/exposing-the-federal-and-state-accounting-rorts/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rates are up – you never had it so good</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/08/rates-are-up-you-never-had-it-so-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/08/rates-are-up-you-never-had-it-so-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aware that this]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[very pleased that]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister and the Treasurer have told us this morning that interest rates simply had to rise because the economy is so good. Nice spin, writes Christian Kerr. ]]></description>
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		<title>Costello: Man of principle, gutless wonder</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/19/costello-man-of-principle-gutless-wonder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/19/costello-man-of-principle-gutless-wonder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sulkpot Petey Poo Nag-Nag is on firmer ground when he whinges about Howard’s record as treasurer. ]]></description>
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