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		<title>Australia Network-ABC headaches have only just begun</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/07/australia-network-abc-headaches-have-only-just-begun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/07/australia-network-abc-headaches-have-only-just-begun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Simons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC News 24]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Downer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Scott]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How will the Australia Network fit with the ABC charter, and in particular the public broadcaster's independence from the government of the day?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>WikiLeaks points the finger at Sheridan over China story</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/06/wikileaks-points-the-finger-at-sheridan-over-china-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/06/wikileaks-points-the-finger-at-sheridan-over-china-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arms sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Sheridan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president george bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A senior Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) official briefed the United States government alleging factual errors in an influential article published in The Australian, writes <b>Grahame Bowland</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The WikiLeaks Australian cable dump: choice picks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/31/the-wikileaks-australian-cable-dump-choice-picks-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/31/the-wikileaks-australian-cable-dump-choice-picks-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Downer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Loughnane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Beazley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wikileaks's latest cables offer a particularly revealing insight into the way Alexander Downer and some of his officals conducted themselves when he was Foreign Minister.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/31/the-wikileaks-australian-cable-dump-choice-picks-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Has the ABC&#8217;s independence finally cruelled its Australia Network chances?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/05/has-the-abcs-independence-finally-cruelled-its-australia-network-chances/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/05/has-the-abcs-independence-finally-cruelled-its-australia-network-chances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DBCDE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international broadcasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sky News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ABC's determination to retain its editorial independence may have become a problem for its Australia Network contract.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/05/has-the-abcs-independence-finally-cruelled-its-australia-network-chances/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Theatre group raises questions about Chinese Consulate intimidating schools</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/23/theatre-group-raises-questions-about-chinese-consulate-intimidating-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/23/theatre-group-raises-questions-about-chinese-consulate-intimidating-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cowie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese consulate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falun Gong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Department of education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese diplomats are pressuring public schools in New South Wales not to attend a touring Chinese cultural show because of its association with Falun Gong, the association behind the show has claimed. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another vintage &#8216;let&#8217;s get Rudd&#8217; story</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/10/another-vintage-lets-get-rudd-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/10/another-vintage-lets-get-rudd-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Everingham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Beazley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rudd's not a gatecrasher, a DFAT source says. His enemies, and there are many, should get over him and let him get on with his job and his life.
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/10/another-vintage-lets-get-rudd-story/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Senator, News hitch a ride on the DFAT &#8216;blunder&#8217; bus</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/05/senator-news-hitch-a-ride-on-the-dfat-blunder-bus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/05/senator-news-hitch-a-ride-on-the-dfat-blunder-bus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eloise Keating</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news corporation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=114495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>News Corp's</em> online news site has given ample column space to unsubstantiated claims by Queensland Liberal Senator Russell Trood that DFAT is placing national security at risk.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/05/senator-news-hitch-a-ride-on-the-dfat-blunder-bus/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>DFAT wants Turnbull and Bishop to butt out?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/21/tips-and-rumours-58/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/21/tips-and-rumours-58/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips and rumours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Limited]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stern Hu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Age]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Crikey tipster writes: A DFAT legal adviser told us the current case of Mr Hu is being compromised by ill informed megaphone behaviour of the Opposition leaders. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/21/tips-and-rumours-58/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hu and 420 others: Aussies on the beermat</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/hu-and-420-others-aussies-on-the-beermat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/hu-and-420-others-aussies-on-the-beermat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detainees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Tinto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stern Hu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/hu-and-420-others-aussies-on-the-beermat/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the PM issues soundbites over China’s detention of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu, Crikey thought it pertinent to cast an eye over other, less prominent, Australians languishing in overseas gulags.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/hu-and-420-others-aussies-on-the-beermat/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s Asia-Pacific Community DOA</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/27/rudds-asia-pacific-community-doa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/27/rudds-asia-pacific-community-doa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asia pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rudd himself has argued that Australia must pursue “middle-power diplomacy”. Hopefully at some point he’ll accept the logic of that himself and stop trying to change the world single-handedly, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Diplomatic protocol trashed by the PM&#8217;s young Turks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/03/diplomatic-protocol-trashed-by-the-pms-young-turks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/03/diplomatic-protocol-trashed-by-the-pms-young-turks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 'G20" phone call never would have happened if the PM had followed protocol, writes <b>Barry Everingham</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/03/diplomatic-protocol-trashed-by-the-pms-young-turks/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>All the Queen&#8217;s men: life after Dauth in DFAT</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/07/all-the-queens-men-life-after-dauth-in-dfat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/07/all-the-queens-men-life-after-dauth-in-dfat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john dauth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Aussie diplomat John Dauth, the wheel of career fortune has turned full cirlce, writes a <b>Special Correspondent</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/07/all-the-queens-men-life-after-dauth-in-dfat/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Razor gang has DFAT under the pump</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/16/razor-gang-has-dfat-under-the-pump/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/16/razor-gang-has-dfat-under-the-pump/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian embassy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While the PM earns plaudits for his performance on the world stage, a grumpy Department of Foreign Affairs is implementing both a $57m cut and a new departmental review, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/16/razor-gang-has-dfat-under-the-pump/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australian Embassy staff turn bolshie in Paris</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/03/australian-embassy-staff-turn-bolshie-in-paris/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/03/australian-embassy-staff-turn-bolshie-in-paris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian embassy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial action]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The commemoration of Anzac Day in Paris this year looks set to be disrupted by industrial action at the Australian Embassy, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/03/australian-embassy-staff-turn-bolshie-in-paris/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Amanda gives Rome a makeover</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/19/amanda-gives-rome-a-makeover/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/19/amanda-gives-rome-a-makeover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Vanstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We now know why Amanda Vanstone has been dilatory in doing what what she's basically paid for - she's been too busy replacing the traces of class and flair created by the wife of her predecessor, Tanya Woolcott, writes <b>Barry Everingham</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rio takeover is great for Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/09/rio-takeover-is-great-for-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/09/rio-takeover-is-great-for-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BHP Billiton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crikey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rio tinto shares]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analysts are already estimating synergies of up to $5 billion from a BHP-Rio merger and plenty of those would come from closing Rio Tinto’s extravagant London head office and running the entire $500 billion empire out of BHP-Billiton’s Lonsdale Street head office in Melbourne, writes Stephen Mayne.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>DFAT in damage control after Downer &#8216;blackmails&#8217; Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/02/dfat-in-damage-control-after-downer-blackmails-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/02/dfat-in-damage-control-after-downer-blackmails-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The normally unflappable diplomats in the Japanese Embassy in Canberra are enraged by yesterday's outburst by Foreign Minister Downer criticizing Tokyo for withdrawing support for the so called war on terror, writes Barry Everingham.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/18/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/18/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overheard at Fairfax. A couple of the political reporters talking about the ACNielsen Poll that will be published tomorrow on the election. They were saying that Rudd would be very happy with the outcome, and the Labor primary vote has gone up! A colleague had a day trip from Sydney to Melbourne on Monday. His 0730 Qantas flight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election? He might as well reign until December</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/12/election-he-might-as-well-reign-until-december/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/12/election-he-might-as-well-reign-until-december/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Downer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the PM push the button for a poll this weekend? I’ve spoken to a range of senior Liberals from ministers down over the past 24 hours. Their response, put colloquially, has been "Search me, guv", writes Christian Kerr.]]></description>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/08/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/08/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[australia branch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By pure chance I spoke to two different senior commonwealth public servants yesterday in Canberra, who work in different departments, both of whom without prompting complained at length about how bored they are at work because there is simply nothing to do. One of these people is on 6 figures, the other close. One even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Rio Tinto should demerge its Australian iron ore business</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/02/why-rio-tinto-should-demerge-its-australian-iron-ore-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/02/why-rio-tinto-should-demerge-its-australian-iron-ore-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afl president]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[iron ore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rio Tinto’s excessive $US44 billion purchase of Canadian company Alcan has pushed debt so high that potential asset sales are being identified to help pay back the banks. A de-merger of the Australian iron-ore business would be the best way to go, writes Stephen Mayne.]]></description>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/28/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/28/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NSW Nurses' Association ... Burma ... Bob Collins ... corporate agriculture ... drought assistance ... preferences and folly ... Canberra airport ... ]]></description>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/25/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/25/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Myer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nsw state election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Milne got his gay smears documents from the Prime Minister’s press secretary Tony O’Leary, who was hawking it about as an example of &#8220;Labor dirt&#8221;. Doesn’t he know about the behaviour of the religious right in his boss’ own division of the Liberals? Sighted campaigning in Bennelong at Coxs&#8217; Rd North Ryde Saturday 22 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hyacinth and Howard no speakies after Laura&#8217;s no-show</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/03/hyacinth-and-howard-no-speakies-after-lauras-no-show/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/03/hyacinth-and-howard-no-speakies-after-lauras-no-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[condi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Our DFAT mole has reported that things in Canberra got very nasty last week when the spotlight was turned on our Second Lady and Lord Downer of Bagdad and Kabul following the American First Lady's call to Janette saying she wouldn't be coming' down.]]></description>
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