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	<title>Crikey &#187; child abuse</title>
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		<title>The Baillieu Dump: hundreds of childcare worker permits revoked</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/02/the-baillieu-dump-hundreds-of-childcare-worker-permits-revoked/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/02/the-baillieu-dump-hundreds-of-childcare-worker-permits-revoked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Baillieu Dump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victorian government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A leading child care expert is calling on the Victorian government to tighten its screening of Working with Children permits after it was revealed that more than 300 have been revoked in the past five years.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pat Anderson: intervention neither well-intentioned nor well-evidenced</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/05/pat-anderson-intervention-neither-well-intentioned-nor-well-evidenced/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/05/pat-anderson-intervention-neither-well-intentioned-nor-well-evidenced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 03:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Little Children are Sacred]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT Intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pat anderson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Pat Anderson</b> co-authored the <em>Little Children are Sacred</em> report for the NT government. The subsequent NT intervention ignored everything the report recommended, says Anderson.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Brumby Dump: sentences for s-x with under-16s &#8216;inadequate&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/16/the-brumby-dump-sentences-for-s-x-with-under-16s-inadequate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/16/the-brumby-dump-sentences-for-s-x-with-under-16s-inadequate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[convicted child abusers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mandatory minimum sentencing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Brumby Dump]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=186290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite successfully recommending major changes to the law, the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council still believes sentences for the s-xual penetration of children under 16 are inadequate, writes Swinburne University student <b>Mike Costello</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/16/the-brumby-dump-sentences-for-s-x-with-under-16s-inadequate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Come in Spinner: inside the prolific Vatican PR outfit</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/21/come-in-spinner-inside-the-prolific-vatican-pr-outfit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/21/come-in-spinner-inside-the-prolific-vatican-pr-outfit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 02:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noel Turnbull</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Come in Spinner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sainthood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spinning the Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the pope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vatican]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=179806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For an organisation that prides itself on its millennia-long view of the world, heaven and all things in between, the Vatican certainly spends a lot of time focused on day-to-day public relations.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/21/come-in-spinner-inside-the-prolific-vatican-pr-outfit/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Legal action, and internal strife, over ABC Archbishop reports</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/16/legal-action-and-internal-strife-over-abc-archbishop-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/16/legal-action-and-internal-strife-over-abc-archbishop-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic priests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lateline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paedophilia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=153954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Controversy continues to swirl around the recent Media Watch story that wasn't -- a planned probe into two ABC <em>Lateline</em> "special investigations" that suggested the Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson had covered up paedophile priests. <b>Andrew Crook</b> investigates.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/16/legal-action-and-internal-strife-over-abc-archbishop-reports/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sinead O&#8217;Conner: How I was abused by the Catholic Church</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032502363.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032502363.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magdalene laundries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[op-eds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the pope]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=126463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an op-ed for the <em>Washington Post</em>, Irish songstress <b>Sinead O'Conner</b> recounts the horror of her childhood years spent in one of the infamous church-run "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_Laundries">Magdalene laundries</a>".]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why overweight kids are victims of child abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/india_knight/article6888918.ece</link>
		<comments>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/india_knight/article6888918.ece#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity epidemic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[op-eds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=95156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being fat is one thing, says <b>India Knight</b>: feed your face as much as you want. But if you feed your kids so much, and so poorly, that they develop weight issues, expect them to be <a href="http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2009/10/23/obese-mother-and-father-have-all-seven-children-taken-into-care-86908-21767322/">taken away from you</a>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/india_knight/article6888918.ece/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Putting the safety of children first</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/bartlett/2009/09/25/putting-the-safety-of-children-first/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/bartlett/2009/09/25/putting-the-safety-of-children-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Bartlett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Ferguson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=88939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the media frenzy over Dennis Ferguson, there's much to suggest that perhaps our society doesn’t give as much priority to protecting children as we like to think we do, says <b>Andrew Bartlett</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/bartlett/2009/09/25/putting-the-safety-of-children-first/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>No white balloons for the city of Wangaratta</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/no-white-balloons-for-the-city-of-wangaratta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/no-white-balloons-for-the-city-of-wangaratta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eleri Harris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Braveheart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[derryn hinch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael McInerney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wangaratta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Balloon Day]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/no-white-balloons-for-the-city-of-wangaratta/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wangaratta has experienced a somewhat unique form of censorship with the banning of a campaign against child sex abuse, Braveheart’s annual White Balloon Day.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/no-white-balloons-for-the-city-of-wangaratta/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Abused children still forgotten</title>
		<link>http://newmatilda.com/2009/07/13/child-abuse-australia-different</link>
		<comments>http://newmatilda.com/2009/07/13/child-abuse-australia-different#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey Intern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=73270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian government needs to launch a Royal Commission into the systematic child abuse that occurred for years to children in institutional care, argue <b>Joanna Penglase</b> and <b>Richard Hil</b>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://newmatilda.com/2009/07/13/child-abuse-australia-different/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd the shock jock &#8212; whatever happened to Bonhoeffer?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/rudd-the-shock-jock-whatever-happened-to-bonhoeffer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/rudd-the-shock-jock-whatever-happened-to-bonhoeffer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Henson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Ellis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the concern were really about safety and sexual abuse, Ellis and Rudd and Brumby and rest of them would point out that most abuse actually takes place in ordinary suburban homes, writes <b>Jeff Sparrow</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/rudd-the-shock-jock-whatever-happened-to-bonhoeffer/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Barns: Forget Henson, a bigger menace plagues the playground</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/barns-forget-henson-a-bigger-menace-plagues-the-playground/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/barns-forget-henson-a-bigger-menace-plagues-the-playground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Henson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Ellis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every day of the week our political leaders allow children to be abused at schools right around Australia, because they sanction the sophisticated and relentless efforts of fast food and soft drink companies to market to children through the education system and sport, writes <b>Greg Barns</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/barns-forget-henson-a-bigger-menace-plagues-the-playground/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teachers&#8217; rights, a parable</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/18/teachers-rights-a-parable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/18/teachers-rights-a-parable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victorian government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Political correctness in the area of child protection has reached dizzying heights of absurdity in its desire to ensure that students are safe from sexual misconduct by teachers, writes <b>Greg Barns</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/18/teachers-rights-a-parable/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>You&#8217;re not going to do a cartoon about that are you?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/12/13/first-dog-on-the-moon-18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/12/13/first-dog-on-the-moon-18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, I'm not doing it.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/12/13/first-dog-on-the-moon-18/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Monitoring p-rn: not government&#8217;s responsibility</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/10/monitoring-p-rn-not-governments-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/10/monitoring-p-rn-not-governments-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3g phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child predators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet chat room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When politicians equate p-rnography with terrorism and child abuse, you know they aren’t approaching the matter soberly. The "think of the children" mindset is a powerful drug, writes Chris Berg. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/10/monitoring-p-rn-not-governments-responsibility/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Not a single voice in support of intervention</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/07/not-a-single-voice-in-support-of-intervention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/07/not-a-single-voice-in-support-of-intervention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stolen generation report]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During a three-day conference here on Indigenous health, the message has come loud and clear from doctors, lawyers, researchers, public servants, economists and Aboriginal leaders. Not a single voice has been raised in defence of the Federal Government’s plans for the NT.

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		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/07/not-a-single-voice-in-support-of-intervention/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>COAG and Aborigines. They knew</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/06/25/coag-and-aborigines-they-knew/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/06/25/coag-and-aborigines-they-knew/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[prime minister and cabinet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tackling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the Prime Minister, Premiers, the Chief Ministers of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and the President of the Australian Local Government Association sat down in Canberra back on 13 April for "detailed discussions on significant areas of national interest" child abuse in indigenous communities was on the agenda but there was no hint of crisis.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crikey Says &#8211; 22 June, 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/06/22/crikey-says-22-june-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/06/22/crikey-says-22-june-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children are sacred]]></category>
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