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	<title>Crikey &#187; drought</title>
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		<title>Experts slam easing of water restrictions as &#8220;political opportunism&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/30/experts-slam-easing-of-water-restrictions-as-political-opportunism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/30/experts-slam-easing-of-water-restrictions-as-political-opportunism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cowie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desalination plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water restrictions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Water groups have labelled an easing of water restrictions in South Australia and Victoria as “political opportunism”, as disquiet grows over the delayed construction and cost blowouts of desalination plants.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>A drought affected farmer goes to Canberra</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/10/a-drought-affected-farmer-goes-to-canberra/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/10/a-drought-affected-farmer-goes-to-canberra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Burke]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=115506</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Farmer <b>Rob Lennon</b> went to Canberra to talk to Agriculture Minister Tony Burke about how the drought is affecting his farm.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dear Tony: despite the rain, farmers still need your help</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/13/dear-tony-despite-the-rain-farmers-still-need-your-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/13/dear-tony-despite-the-rain-farmers-still-need-your-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Burke]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=109335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Crikey</em> reader and farmer <b>Rob Lennon</b> pens another open letter to Agriculture Minister Tony Burke: even with the rain, farms and farmers still need urgent assistance.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>To filter or not to filter, that is the Conroy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/17/to-filter-or-not-to-filter-that-is-the-conroy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/17/to-filter-or-not-to-filter-that-is-the-conroy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Firewall of Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=106493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good old internet filtering. The only subject that fires Crikey readers up more than climate change.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>An open letter on behalf of drought-affected farmers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/16/an-open-letter-on-behalf-of-drought-affected-farmers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/16/an-open-letter-on-behalf-of-drought-affected-farmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Burke]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=106172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Crikey</em> reader and farmer <b>Ron Lennon</b> pens an open letter to Agriculture Minister Tony Burke: farms and farmers need assistance now.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Feeling hungry? Great Britain faces a food shortage</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/dec/13/britain-faces-food-shortage</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/dec/13/britain-faces-food-shortage#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=105678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We need to produce more food in the next 50 years than we did in the last 5,000, on less land with less water, less fertiliser and fewer green house gases, say experts. Are we facing a potential global food crisis? ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/dec/13/britain-faces-food-shortage/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Washington Post meets Australia&#8217;s climate sceptic farmers</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120804490.html?wprss=rss_print</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120804490.html?wprss=rss_print#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change sceptics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swan Reach]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=104737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>WashPo</em> leaves the bright lights of DC for the Murray River town of Swan Reach in South Australia, where drought-ravaged farmers refuse to buy in to the idea of global warming.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Life in an empty basin</title>
		<link>http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/04/murray-darling/draper-text</link>
		<comments>http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/04/murray-darling/draper-text#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=92967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While scientists fret about a future world without water, for the people of the Murray Darling Basin, it is already a way of life. Meet the communities who have literally been left high and dry.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tear up your lawn</title>
		<link>http://trueslant.com/matthewfleischer/2009/09/29/i-hate-your-lawn/</link>
		<comments>http://trueslant.com/matthewfleischer/2009/09/29/i-hate-your-lawn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water saving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water shortage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=90209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Running out of water is a <em>big deal</em>, says <b>Matthew Fleischer</b>, far more important than having a green lawn for Summer. It's time for a great Maoist lawn purge: let a thousand flowers wilt.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://trueslant.com/matthewfleischer/2009/09/29/i-hate-your-lawn/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dead cattle put Kenya at the brink of national disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/17/kenya-drought-cattle-deaths</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/17/kenya-drought-cattle-deaths#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cattle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nairobi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=87534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Years of drought sweeping across Kenya's plains have placed the country at a critical stage. Four million Kenyans are on food aid, yet a blotched government plan has resulted in hundreds of dead cattle.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/17/kenya-drought-cattle-deaths/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Once-in-a-century floods, drought and fire. Again.</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/03/once-in-a-century-floods-drought-and-fire-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/03/once-in-a-century-floods-drought-and-fire-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bushfires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[floods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sunday Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weird weather]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/03/once-in-a-century-floods-drought-and-fire-again/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cherry-picking extreme weather events weakens your case, but both sides do it shamelessly in the climate debate, writes <b>Frank Campbell</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/03/once-in-a-century-floods-drought-and-fire-again/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Drought and GFC cause a hangover for wine industry</title>
		<link>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/20/2661216.htm?section=business</link>
		<comments>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/20/2661216.htm?section=business#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wine industry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=80902</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Poor rainfall combined with a shrinking export market is leading many Australian wine growers to abandon their vineyards, with an industry body estimating 2000 growers will be forced off their farms over the next two years]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/20/2661216.htm?section=business/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Get ready for another El Niño</title>
		<link>http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/new-el-ni241o-threatens-world-with-weather-woe-1766555.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/new-el-ni241o-threatens-world-with-weather-woe-1766555.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[el nino la nina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meteorology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weather]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=77810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Meteorologists say a new El Niño has begun and may result in 2010 being one of the hottest years on record. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/new-el-ni241o-threatens-world-with-weather-woe-1766555.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Drought in California means shaved heads</title>
		<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&#038;sid=a8X3k8FhImlc&#038;refer=home</link>
		<comments>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&#038;sid=a8X3k8FhImlc&#038;refer=home#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 09:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=56440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The drought in California’s Central Valley is so severe that it’s drying up money for haircuts. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&#038;sid=a8X3k8FhImlc&#038;refer=home/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The ABS make the experts look stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/06/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/06/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 03:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eurovision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=55886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ABS makes retail experts look foolish, Labor spinners paint Kevin Rudd as Robin Hood and heavy security for major European poll -- Eurovision 2009.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/06/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-6/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The ethical cost of gardens</title>
		<link>http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=12558</link>
		<comments>http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=12558#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gardening]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=51471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maintaining even a humble garden can be a guilt-wracking experience in these times of drought and climate change.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=12558/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Murray River a toxic open drain – why don’t we care?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/09/murray-river-a-toxic-open-drain-%e2%80%93-why-don%e2%80%99t-we-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/09/murray-river-a-toxic-open-drain-%e2%80%93-why-don%e2%80%99t-we-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=50917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How did this become okay? Asks the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/09/murray-river-a-toxic-open-drain-%e2%80%93-why-don%e2%80%99t-we-care/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Keating ... the Beijing Olympics ... Facebook ... water buybacks ... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ... ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time for Wong to come clean on the Coorong</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/07/time-for-wong-to-come-clean-on-the-coorong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/07/time-for-wong-to-come-clean-on-the-coorong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Penny Wong]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there enough water in the Murray Darling to save the Coorong? No one - least of all Penny Wong -- knows for sure, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richard Farmer&#8217;s political bite-sized meaty chunks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/07/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/07/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crikey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US08]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water shortages]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Too much air time makes Barack an unpopular man, note to Kev.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Food costs continue to grow</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/19/food-costs-continue-to-grow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/19/food-costs-continue-to-grow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goodman fielder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mcguigan simeon wines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world commodity prices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The drought continues to have an impact on a growing number of Australian companies, most notably Australasia's biggest food group, Goodman Fielder, writes Glenn Dyer.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blainey buckets the “one in a hundred year” hype</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/04/blainey-buckets-the-one-in-a-hundred-year-hype/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/04/blainey-buckets-the-one-in-a-hundred-year-hype/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annual rainfall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rainfall records]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bureaucrats, scientists, special interest groups and academics keen on making a dollar from disaster have discovered a new scam lately. They’ve started warning of “one in a hundred year” events – droughts, floods and fires. Unfortunately, one of our leading historians has come along to rain on the drought.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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