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	<title>Crikey &#187; Business economy</title>
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		<title>Austar execs get cashed up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/25/austar-execs-get-cashed-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/25/austar-execs-get-cashed-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[austar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Austar believe so much in the company that now the shares have weakened, they are making the first in a controversial long term incentive program next Tuesday in cash, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Dyer&#8217;s Real Economy wrap: Grim news for German growth, Cruise industry sinking</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/25/dyers-real-economy-wrap-grim-news-for-german-growth-cruise-industry-sinking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/25/dyers-real-economy-wrap-grim-news-for-german-growth-cruise-industry-sinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[auto industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What's the German word for spin? ... German growth looking grim ... More deals for air travellers? ... Cruise lines are sinking ... Read the fine print on housing news ... How do you solve a problem like Japan? ... Chock biscuits sales fall, Big pizzas up ... Oroton shows them how it's done ... CK suffers.]]></description>
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		<title>Morning market report</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/23/morning-market-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/23/morning-market-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Marcus Padley</b> reports on the highs and lows of today's markets.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Equity raisings and the prisoner&#8217;s dilemma</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/10/equity-raisings-and-the-prisoners-dilemma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/10/equity-raisings-and-the-prisoners-dilemma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equity raising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That many equity raisings have proven disastrous for investors should not come as a surprise, writes <b>Adam Schwab</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s last hope: my housing rescue plan</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/03/obamas-last-hope-my-housing-rescue-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/03/obamas-last-hope-my-housing-rescue-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Make no mistake: President Obama's recently announced $US75 billion housing plan is a long-term policy disaster, writes <b>Christopher Joye</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Memo to Kim Carr: stop dipping into taxpayers&#8217; candy jar</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/26/memo-to-kim-carr-stop-dipping-into-taxpayers-candy-jar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/26/memo-to-kim-carr-stop-dipping-into-taxpayers-candy-jar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[closure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Carr]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a business decides it’s time to go, there’s no point berating them or rashly and recklessly offering them suitcases of taxpayers’ dollars hoping to bribe them to stay, writes <b>Greg Barns</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Peter Chernin&#8217;s golden (diamond-encrusted, platinum-gilded) parachute</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/25/peter-chernins-golden-diamond-encrusted-platinum-gilded-parachute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/25/peter-chernins-golden-diamond-encrusted-platinum-gilded-parachute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Corp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even Rupert may difficulty defending paying his COO remuneration of US$147 million, a termination payment of at least US$29 million and a six-year motion picture agreement while News Corp shares plummet, writes <b>Adam Schwab</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Exception to the rule: Transurban CEO earns his keep</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/19/exception-to-the-rule-transurban-ceo-earns-his-keep/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/19/exception-to-the-rule-transurban-ceo-earns-his-keep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceo remuneration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executive salaries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Lynch has completed a remarkable transformation at toll road operator, Transurban since replacing Kim Edwards as CEO in April 2008, writes <b>Adam Schwab</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sharp rise in unemployment rate: labour market&#8217;s turning sour</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/12/sharp-rise-in-unemployment-rate-labour-markets-turning-sour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/12/sharp-rise-in-unemployment-rate-labour-markets-turning-sour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment figures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment in australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You have to look through today's confusing Labour Force figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to get a true sense of the worsening state of the labour market, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/12/sharp-rise-in-unemployment-rate-labour-markets-turning-sour/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The housing market is holding up. Shock</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/12/the-housing-market-is-holding-up-shock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/12/the-housing-market-is-holding-up-shock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first home owners grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A striking thing about the flow of statistics this week is the continuing confidence people have in housing, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/12/the-housing-market-is-holding-up-shock/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Australia can reclaim Rio and embrace the Chinese</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/12/how-australia-can-reclaim-rio-and-embrace-the-chinese/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/12/how-australia-can-reclaim-rio-and-embrace-the-chinese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus package]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did Nambour High equip Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan to deal with all this at once? asks <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/12/how-australia-can-reclaim-rio-and-embrace-the-chinese/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Australian economy is all over the shop</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/11/the-australian-economy-is-all-over-the-shop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/11/the-australian-economy-is-all-over-the-shop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Tinto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The scatty nature of the slowing Australian economy is showing up in the interim results from banks, retailers, media companies, property, building and some of our major global groups, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/11/the-australian-economy-is-all-over-the-shop/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>SackWatch: Ninemsn&#8230; MacBank&#8230; Harvey Norman&#8230; GE&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/09/sackwatch-ninemsn-macbank-harvey-norman-ge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/09/sackwatch-ninemsn-macbank-harvey-norman-ge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unemployment in australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crikey’s SackWatch continues apace with a spate of sackings, disappointing employment data and job surveys upping the pressure on the Senate to pass Kevin Rudd’s $42 billion stimulus package, writes <b>Andrew Crook</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Memo from the bright side: Sydney real estate is booming</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/memo-from-the-bright-side-sydney-real-estate-is-booming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/memo-from-the-bright-side-sydney-real-estate-is-booming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing market]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Buyers are flooding back into the market in volumes greater than 2007 when the market peaked, writes Sydney estate agent <b>Michael Chatfield</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/memo-from-the-bright-side-sydney-real-estate-is-booming/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Storm&#8217;s media blitz on Commonwealth</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/28/storms-media-blitz-on-commonwealth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/28/storms-media-blitz-on-commonwealth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The co-founder of Storm Financial, Emmanuel Cassimatis, has launched a media blitz, blaming the Commonwealth Bank for panicking and causing Storm clients to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, writes <b>James Thomson</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/28/storms-media-blitz-on-commonwealth/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thornley&#8217;s Better Place may be last year&#8217;s business model</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/23/thornleys-better-place-may-be-last-years-business-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/23/thornleys-better-place-may-be-last-years-business-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dotcom crash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better Place can take solace from the fact local CEO Evan Thornley has plenty of experience in making millions from unsuccessful ventures, writes <b>Adam Schwab</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The peddlers of recession p-rn</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/19/the-peddlers-of-recession-p-rn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/19/the-peddlers-of-recession-p-rn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barely a day has gone by without some bank, investment analyst, economics commentator or ratings agency offering their own special index of misery to illustrate just how stuffed we are, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>CEOs: the poor little rich guys</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/19/ceos-the-poor-little-rich-guys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/19/ceos-the-poor-little-rich-guys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hidden villains of the market collapse, faceless company directors, are revolting, writes <b>Adam Schwab</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kohler: The broker who knew too much</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/18/kohler-the-broker-who-knew-too-much/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/18/kohler-the-broker-who-knew-too-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commonwealth Bank’s shambolic share placement raises two questions of substance, writes <b>Alan Kohler</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Morning Market Report</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/18/morning-market-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/18/morning-market-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcus Padley reports on the highs and lows of today's markets. ]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Collingwood to move on from Eddie McGuire</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/17/time-for-collingwood-to-move-on-from-eddie-mcguire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Collingwood Football Club AGM at the MCG tonight should be an absolute belter, writes <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Market Report</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/17/morning-market-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<title>James Packer now half the man his father was</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/16/james-packer-now-half-the-man-his-father-was/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/16/james-packer-now-half-the-man-his-father-was/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kerry Packer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Packer has 3.3 billion reasons to wish that 2008 would hurry up and finish, writes <b>James Thomson</b>.
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		<title>US on the road to somewhere else</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/15/us-on-the-road-to-somewhere-else/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/15/us-on-the-road-to-somewhere-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the US, plunging car sales means fewer cars, less trips and less deaths on the nation's roads, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>As Westpac&#8217;s share price drops, its directors demand more</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/12/as-westpacs-share-price-drops-its-directors-demand-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/12/as-westpacs-share-price-drops-its-directors-demand-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The market crash has exposed a myriad of corporate governance failings but its hard to top the Westpac board for sheer audacity in seeking a 50% increase in directors’ fees, writes <b>Adam Schwab</b>.]]></description>
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