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	<title>Crikey &#187; Essential Report</title>
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		<title>Essential: still bad for Labor; ADF most trusted institution</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/06/essential-still-bad-for-labor-adf-most-trusted-institution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/06/essential-still-bad-for-labor-adf-most-trusted-institution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IR reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting intention]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Labor's vote shows no signs of any recovery, today's Essential Report finds.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: we like our local BER, and Howard&#8217;s the best PM</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/30/essential-we-like-our-local-ber-and-howards-the-best-pm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/30/essential-we-like-our-local-ber-and-howards-the-best-pm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BER program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting intention]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=271461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents like the BER program and think it benefited their children's school, today's Essential Report finds.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: strong support for manufacturing assistance and pokies reform</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/23/essential-strong-support-for-manufacturing-assistance-and-pokies-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/23/essential-strong-support-for-manufacturing-assistance-and-pokies-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industry policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies mandatory pre commitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting intention]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's strong support for mandatory pre-commitment from voters, and they also back handouts for the car industry.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: for big retailers, price and service are a key problem</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/17/essential-for-big-retailers-price-and-service-are-a-key-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/17/essential-for-big-retailers-price-and-service-are-a-key-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[major retailers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New Essential Report data backs what we know about the changes in Australian retail, but with an interesting age-related twist.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential Research: 54-46 to Coalition</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2012/01/16/essential-research-54-46-to-coalition-6/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2012/01/16/essential-research-54-46-to-coalition-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first Essential Research poll for the year has the two-party vote at the same place as the final poll last year, with the Coalition leading 54-46 two-party preferred, reports <b>William Bowe</b>.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: warmer months but voters still cold on leaders</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/essential-warmer-months-but-voters-still-cold-on-leaders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/essential-warmer-months-but-voters-still-cold-on-leaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preferred Prime Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott both finish the Summer break with marginal improvements in their voter standing, but the political landscape is essentially unchanged.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: Gillard will go, and Labor deserves no economic credit</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/19/essential-gillard-will-go-and-labor-deserves-no-economic-credit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/19/essential-gillard-will-go-and-labor-deserves-no-economic-credit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Whittaker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal oppostion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tony abbot]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=265883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most voters believe Julia Gillard will lose the prime ministership within 12 months, with new polling recording more disapproval and predictions of doom for the Labor government.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/19/essential-gillard-will-go-and-labor-deserves-no-economic-credit/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: trust in commercial media continues to fall</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/12/essential-trust-in-commercial-media-continues-to-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/12/essential-trust-in-commercial-media-continues-to-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Press Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commercial media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[television news]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=264605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Trust in Australia's commercial media continues to slump despite the industry's insistence all is well.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/12/essential-trust-in-commercial-media-continues-to-fall/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: both leaders end the year on the nose</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/12/essential-both-leaders-end-the-year-on-the-nose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/12/essential-both-leaders-end-the-year-on-the-nose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Whittaker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=264633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott end the political year as deeply unpopular leaders, losing the faith of even more voters.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/12/essential-both-leaders-end-the-year-on-the-nose/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: early election out, but Labor brand still toxic</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/05/essential-early-election-out-but-labor-brand-still-toxic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/05/essential-early-election-out-but-labor-brand-still-toxic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail spending]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=263310</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's been a marked fall in support for an early election in the wake of the Gillard government shoring up its parliamentary numbers as the political year draws to a close.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/05/essential-early-election-out-but-labor-brand-still-toxic/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: delay the surplus and share the resources boom</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/28/essential-delay-the-surplus-and-share-the-resources-boom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/28/essential-delay-the-surplus-and-share-the-resources-boom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining boom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama visit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=261829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters would prefer the return to surplus delayed, today's Essential Report finds. And voters were underwhelmed with Tony Abbott's performance during President Obam's visit.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/28/essential-delay-the-surplus-and-share-the-resources-boom/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: no to uranium exports to India, yes to mining tax</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/21/essential-no-to-uranium-exports-to-india-yes-to-mining-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/21/essential-no-to-uranium-exports-to-india-yes-to-mining-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon pricing package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MRRT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uranium exports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=260344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters back the mining tax but oppose uranium exports to India, today's Essential Report shows. And voters are less concerned about a return to Workchoices.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/21/essential-no-to-uranium-exports-to-india-yes-to-mining-tax/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: the Gillard (semi) recovery edition</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/14/essential-the-gillard-semi-recovery-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/14/essential-the-gillard-semi-recovery-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preferred Prime Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=258945</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Julia Gillard has turned around her negative momentum with voters, but Tony Abbott continues to go the wrong way, today's Essential Report finds.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/14/essential-the-gillard-semi-recovery-edition/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: Qantas divides voters, Fair Work Australia the only winner</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/07/essential-qantas-divides-voters-fair-work-australia-the-only-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/07/essential-qantas-divides-voters-fair-work-australia-the-only-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paywalls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=257430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters disapprove of Qantas management's decision to ground its fleet, but don't approve of the way anyone in the dispute conducted themselves except the industrial relations regulator, Essential Report has found.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: divisions over Occupy, but we&#8217;re gunning for CSG</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/31/essential-divisions-over-occupy-but-were-gunning-for-csg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/31/essential-divisions-over-occupy-but-were-gunning-for-csg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal seam gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=255922</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters support the concerns of the Occupy movement, but don't support the protests themselves and are divided over whether police were justified in breaking them up, new polling shows.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/31/essential-divisions-over-occupy-but-were-gunning-for-csg/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: meh on the republic, but fired up about Qantas</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/24/essential-meh-on-the-republic-but-fired-up-about-qantas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/24/essential-meh-on-the-republic-but-fired-up-about-qantas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=254548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters blame Qantas management for its dispute with unions, today's Essential Report finds. But support for a republic isn't going anywhere.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: we don&#8217;t like carbon tax any more now it&#8217;s passed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/17/essential-we-dont-like-carbon-tax-any-more-now-its-passed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/17/essential-we-dont-like-carbon-tax-any-more-now-its-passed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Bowe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=253102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Opinion of the carbon tax has been little affected either by the government's political success in negotiating it through the House of Representatives nor by the perceived unseemliness of the triumphalism that followed.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/17/essential-we-dont-like-carbon-tax-any-more-now-its-passed/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>165</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: amid the economic gloom, Labor gets a primary boost</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/03/essential-amid-the-economic-gloom-labor-gets-a-primary-boost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/03/essential-amid-the-economic-gloom-labor-gets-a-primary-boost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Bowe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The latest weekly Essential Research survey offers more evidence of gloom about the economy, with 58% expecting conditions in Australia to worsen over the next 12 months. However, the pessimism is not quite as bad as first appears]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/03/essential-amid-the-economic-gloom-labor-gets-a-primary-boost/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: Gillard a model of stability, Greens gain ground</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/26/essential-gillard-a-model-of-stability-greens-gain-ground/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/26/essential-gillard-a-model-of-stability-greens-gain-ground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Bowe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For all the convulsions it has faced on the political front, in one respect the Gillard government has presented a model of stability in recent months: its opinion poll ratings, as measured by the weekly Essential Research report, have been set in stone since the middle of June.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Announcing the first Kindle winner &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/20/announcing-the-first-kindle-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/20/announcing-the-first-kindle-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Literary Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[code of conduct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crikey readers have their say.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: we&#8217;ll cop a carbon tax with compensation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/19/essential-well-cop-a-carbon-tax-with-compensation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/19/essential-well-cop-a-carbon-tax-with-compensation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Whittaker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essential poll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=247734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The federal government has failed to sway those opposed to a carbon tax, though more than half of voters are prepared to support it with compensation for lower income households, new polling finds.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/19/essential-well-cop-a-carbon-tax-with-compensation/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: Gillard down again, but support for offshoring, pokies reform</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/12/essential-gillard-down-again-but-support-for-offshoring-pokies-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/12/essential-gillard-down-again-but-support-for-offshoring-pokies-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poker machine reforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=246422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Julia Gillard has hot a new low in today's Essential Report. But there's support for the government in asylum seeker processing and pokies.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/12/essential-gillard-down-again-but-support-for-offshoring-pokies-reform/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: Rudd preferred as crisis leader; election now, say voters</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/05/essential-rudd-preferred-as-crisis-leader-election-now-say-voters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/05/essential-rudd-preferred-as-crisis-leader-election-now-say-voters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=245099</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd's the preferred choice of voters in the event there's another financial crisis. But more voters want an election held now.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/05/essential-rudd-preferred-as-crisis-leader-election-now-say-voters/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: we trust Negus and Oakes, but who&#8217;s Andrew Bolt?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/05/essential-we-trust-negus-and-oakes-but-whos-andrew-bolt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/05/essential-we-trust-negus-and-oakes-but-whos-andrew-bolt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Whittaker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alan jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Bolt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george negus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Oakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media commentators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tony jones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We trust Laurie Oakes and George Negus to bring us the news. But not Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt, an Essential Research poll found.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/05/essential-we-trust-negus-and-oakes-but-whos-andrew-bolt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: surge in opposition to Afghan involvement, voters split on rallies</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/30/essential-surge-in-opposition-to-afghan-involvement-voters-split-on-rallies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/30/essential-surge-in-opposition-to-afghan-involvement-voters-split-on-rallies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[convoy of no confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=243708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Opposition to our involvement in Afghanistan has hit new highs, today's Essential Report finds.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/30/essential-surge-in-opposition-to-afghan-involvement-voters-split-on-rallies/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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