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		<title>In people power, there is hope yet for the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/22/in-people-power-there-is-hope-yet-for-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/22/in-people-power-there-is-hope-yet-for-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arab revolutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president mubarak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia revolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Arab people’s hunger for the universal values of dignity, justice and freedom is no less potent than that of the Eastern European or South American people, writes <b>Professor Fethi Mansouri</b>, Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>When democracy smiles at me, I go to Rio</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/01/when-democracy-smiles-at-me-i-go-to-rio/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/01/when-democracy-smiles-at-me-i-go-to-rio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[latin america]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luis Inácio Lula da Silva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South American]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=175777</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The biggest general election of 2010 takes place on Sunday when Brazil, the world's fifth-largest country, elects its new president, congress, governors and state legislatures. Democracy works well in Brazil.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The topic is cancer &#8212; the 2010 election and the collapse of political legitimacy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/10/rundle-the-topic-is-cancer-the-2010-election-and-the-collapse-of-political-legitimacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/10/rundle-the-topic-is-cancer-the-2010-election-and-the-collapse-of-political-legitimacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle on the Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=163077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A series of cave-ins, ducked battles, and soft options by the people who controlled parties, papers and powers, and a refusal to stand up to the genuinely malign, has brought us to this point.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>The trashing of Brand Rudd</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/31/the-trashing-of-brand-rudd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/31/the-trashing-of-brand-rudd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 03:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Holes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chokos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clive Palmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eddie McGuire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gayness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national emergency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ned kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[richmond tigers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Magic Roundabout]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=142352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gott ist tot!]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/31/the-trashing-of-brand-rudd/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re in 7.30 Reportland any more Toto</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/19/i-dont-think-were-in-7-30-reportland-any-more-toto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/19/i-dont-think-were-in-7-30-reportland-any-more-toto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 03:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcohol Pops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chicken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frozen Water Buffalo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phoney Tony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plasma TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RATED RUDE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=139537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[poke poke]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>The new global middle class: they&#8217;re not like &#8220;us&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/234589</link>
		<comments>http://www.newsweek.com/id/234589#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[globalisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=122201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Developing countries are developing their own middle classes -- but they're not "liberal, democratic, market-friendly bastions not only of Western-style consumerism but also of political liberty" "we" might like them to be, says <em>Newsweek</em>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fighting the Burma genocide</title>
		<link>http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/02/mac-mcclelland-burma-genocide-karen</link>
		<comments>http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/02/mac-mcclelland-burma-genocide-karen#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burmese military junta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burmese military regime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=120935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An incredible, in-depth look at the activists attempting to promote democracy in Burma and chronicle the human rights abuses occurring under the junta. <b>Mac McClelland</b> visits the Karen freedom fighters trapped in Thai refugee camps.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/02/mac-mcclelland-burma-genocide-karen/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kohler: Why China won&#8217;t save the world</title>
		<link>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/China-economy-government-democracy-pd20091113-XQRKS?OpenDocument</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/China-economy-government-democracy-pd20091113-XQRKS?OpenDocument#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Happell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[China's economic growth will not be a panacea to the world's financial woes so long as it remains a largely undemocratic state, says <b>Alan Kohler</b>: it isn't a consumer society, and the export dollars just aren't there.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/China-economy-government-democracy-pd20091113-XQRKS?OpenDocument/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Former communist countries don&#8217;t like capitalism</title>
		<link>http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14792427&#038;source=features_box4</link>
		<comments>http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14792427&#038;source=features_box4#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eastern europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall of communism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall fell and communism in Eastern Europe crashed down with it. Except, capitalism and democracy are less popular now in Russia, Czech Republic and East Germany than they were in 1991. What, greed <em>isn't</em> good?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14792427&#038;source=features_box4/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Political twits no win for democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9502</link>
		<comments>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9502#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian politicians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=89613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So you read KRudd's <a href="http://twitter.com/KevinRuddPM">tweets</a>  and watch his YouTube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/pmkevinrudd#play/uploads">vids.</a> Unfortunately, social media isn't improving our political knowledge or changing our political opinions, writes <b>Greg Barns</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Click the vote: politics 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9471&#038;page=0</link>
		<comments>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9471&#038;page=0#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government 2.0 Taskforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online participation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[participatory democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul McLeay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=88439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Can an open source government work? An electorate in NSW has $300,000 and an online public vote system for choosing which local programs get funded. Want a new oval? Get voting.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bill Clinton: How to export democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/03/bill-clinton-how-to-export-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/03/bill-clinton-how-to-export-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 06:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=54974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton on the trouble with selling other countries on constitutional democracy: you have to look after the "losers and the loners".]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/03/bill-clinton-how-to-export-democracy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fiji&#8217;s constitutional coup</title>
		<link>http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13496478</link>
		<comments>http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13496478#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiji]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=51835</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Soldiers in newsrooms, judges sacked, constitution in tatters ... but life goes on in Fiji.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13496478/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8230;and the Gold Walkley for Journalistc Leadership goes to&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/19/first-dog-on-the-moon-321/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/19/first-dog-on-the-moon-321/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gold walkley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Fawcett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Hartigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[little rupert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Ltd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicole Kidman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[playboy mansion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Hartigan!]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/19/first-dog-on-the-moon-321/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Governments should prep for the next vaccine scare</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/26/governments-should-prep-for-the-next-vaccine-scare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/26/governments-should-prep-for-the-next-vaccine-scare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[primary healthcare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Judging by the experiences in the UK and USA, we will be in for some major challenges if a vaccine scare gets traction in Australia, writes <b>Julile Leask</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/26/governments-should-prep-for-the-next-vaccine-scare/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mark Davis: The Land of Plenty</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/mark-davis-the-land-of-plenty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/mark-davis-the-land-of-plenty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia’s particular democratic ethos isn’t simply a matter of headline-making achievements. It extends through to the way in which day-to-day life is lived by ordinary people, writes <b>Mark Davis</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Whither the Democrats?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/24/first-dog-on-the-moon-141/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/24/first-dog-on-the-moon-141/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anthropomorphism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cryptodisneyist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inaugural meeting of the Australian Lobster Party...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Islam and democracy: six speakers, four brains</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/15/islam-and-democracy-six-speakers-four-brains/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/15/islam-and-democracy-six-speakers-four-brains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight sees the first Australian Intelligence Squared debate. The sell-out debate topic is "Islam is incompatible with Democracy", and it should be interesting, writes <b>Irfan Yusuf</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>America still holding out against Pakistani democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/27/america-still-holding-out-against-pakistani-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/27/america-still-holding-out-against-pakistani-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pervez musharraf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week's visit to Pakistan of two high-ranking US policymakers raised some expectations that they might be carrying the message to General Musharraf that it was time to quit, writes <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why China won&#8217;t hold Tibet forever</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/20/why-china-wont-hold-tibet-forever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/20/why-china-wont-hold-tibet-forever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the longer term, Tibet's prospects are not so grim, writes <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/20/why-china-wont-hold-tibet-forever/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mysteries of Democracy &#8211; The Recyclable Cardboard Polling Booth</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/24/mysteries-of-democracy-the-recyclable-cardboard-polling-booth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/24/mysteries-of-democracy-the-recyclable-cardboard-polling-booth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Electoral Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[giant squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great dividing range]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polling booth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We still don't understand how they know...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Burmese people have had enough</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/26/the-burmese-people-have-had-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/26/the-burmese-people-have-had-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[order restoration council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[san suu kyi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spdc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Monique Skidmore details the historical roots of the current Burmese protest and where it might lead. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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