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		<title>Swan&#8217;s MYEFO tricks to be overshadowed by EU?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/29/buoyant-swans-pea-and-thimble-trick-overshadowed-by-eu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/29/buoyant-swans-pea-and-thimble-trick-overshadowed-by-eu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=262142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2012-13 surplus has been preserved, at the cost of moving spending around, but Europe is still a huge threat to the economy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>MYEFO: Swan cuts to save the thinnest of surpluses</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/29/myefo-swan-cuts-to-save-the-thinnest-of-surpluses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/29/myefo-swan-cuts-to-save-the-thinnest-of-surpluses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=262098</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The government has unveiled a range of spending cuts but they won't stop a big blowout in this year's budget deficit.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mental health and the budget: positive steps but many gaps remain</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/05/24/mental-health-and-the-budget-some-positive-steps-but-plenty-of-sorry-gaps-too/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/05/24/mental-health-and-the-budget-some-positive-steps-but-plenty-of-sorry-gaps-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 22:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=225181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given the magnitude of the burden of mental illness and the scope and extent of needs in the mental health sector, the Gillard government's significant down payment on new and expanded services can only be considered the beginning, writes <b>Lesley Russell</b>. 
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Parallels between mental health initiatives and portrayals in Australian film</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/cinetology/2011/05/20/the-unnoticed-parallels-between-mental-health-initiatives-and-portrayals-in-australian-film/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/cinetology/2011/05/20/the-unnoticed-parallels-between-mental-health-initiatives-and-portrayals-in-australian-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 23:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film & TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=224395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This year there has been a striking -- but completely unnoticed -- correlation between the federal government’s mental health initiatives and the dominant theme in Australian films. <b>Luke Buckmaster</b> explains. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jericho: Hockey&#8217;s budget reply address was an embarrassment</title>
		<link>http://grogsgamut.blogspot.com/2011/05/joe-packs-his-bags-for-saudi-arabia.html</link>
		<comments>http://grogsgamut.blogspot.com/2011/05/joe-packs-his-bags-for-saudi-arabia.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 23:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget reply address]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=224106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Hockey's budget reply address was a ludicrous quasi economic lecture capped off by a grilling from the press gallery, writes <b>Greg Jericho</b>.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Huffing and puffing over Fukushima coverage</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/16/huffing-and-puffing-over-fukushima-coverage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/16/huffing-and-puffing-over-fukushima-coverage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 02:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=223292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crikey readers have their say.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/16/huffing-and-puffing-over-fukushima-coverage/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The budget yawn.</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/16/the-budget-yawn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/16/the-budget-yawn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 02:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polls]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=223287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So the impact of the budget has been measured by the pollsters and nothing really has changed. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Budget breakdown: the holding pattern on clean-tech investment</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/13/budget-breakdown-the-holding-pattern-on-clean-tech-investment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/13/budget-breakdown-the-holding-pattern-on-clean-tech-investment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 03:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Breakdown: CPD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean energy technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable energy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=223089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the first of a series of post-budget reports, <b>Fiona Armstrong</b> and <b>Laura Eadie</b> from the Centre for Policy Development explore options to encourage innovation and roll out less mature renewable energy technologies.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/13/budget-breakdown-the-holding-pattern-on-clean-tech-investment/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Middle-class welfare</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/13/middle-class-welfare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/13/middle-class-welfare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 03:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=223075</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crikey reads have tehir say.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Variation on a theme</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/12/variation-on-a-theme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/12/variation-on-a-theme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 03:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interviewing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=222733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Space and time in the media expands to fit the journalists available.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jericho: The question is not &#8216;who is rich&#8217; but &#8216;who cares&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://grogsgamut.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-qt-thats-bit-rich.html</link>
		<comments>http://grogsgamut.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-qt-thats-bit-rich.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 00:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=222796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reportage of the federal budget was generally of a high quality, but some media outlets were sidetracked by the pointless question of who is rich and who is not, writes <b>Greg Jericho</b>.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Some context to the budget’s mental health announcements</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/05/11/some-context-to-budgets-mental-health-announcements/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/05/11/some-context-to-budgets-mental-health-announcements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 22:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=222751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mental health is a particularly fraught area of public policy. <em>Croakey</em> presents two pieces which provide some historical and current context to the cutbacks to the Better Access program, which were announced in this week's federal budget. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/05/11/some-context-to-budgets-mental-health-announcements/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Budget goes cold as Australia&#8217;s Got Talent cooks MasterChef</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/11/budget-goes-cold-as-australias-got-talent-cooks-masterchef/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/11/budget-goes-cold-as-australias-got-talent-cooks-masterchef/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 03:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=222439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The low figures for the Treasurer's speech and then the 7.30 discussion program at 8pm, plus Lateline and Lateline Business tells us that viewers were bored.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The budget attack to come</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/11/the-budget-attack-to-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/11/the-budget-attack-to-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 03:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=222436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[our sentences from this morning's Liberal Party missive on the budget sum up the attack to come.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wayne Swan moves in to the spotlight</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/11/wayne-swan-moves-in-to-the-spotlight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/11/wayne-swan-moves-in-to-the-spotlight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 03:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Baume</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Media Monitors' Top 20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Bieber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=222437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wayne Swan’s presentation remains dead ordinary, but his messaging has been reasonably good in the wake of the budget.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/11/wayne-swan-moves-in-to-the-spotlight/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The BBC perspective: quasi-austere Swan delivers politically cautious budget</title>
		<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13350454</link>
		<comments>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13350454#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 23:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=222465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The federal budget was not a collection of deep cuts, but rather a lot of tiny ones. The Labor government simply doesn't have the numbers to be bold, says the <em>BBC's</em> <b>Nick Bryan</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A wrap of reaction to the health budget</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/05/10/a-wrap-of-reaction-to-the-health-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2011/05/10/a-wrap-of-reaction-to-the-health-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 23:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Buckmaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will the budget do for healthcare? <em>Croakey</em> presents media statements from the Public Health Association and Consumers Health Forum and Doctors Reform Society. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Budget Lock-up: What every taxpayer should know</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/first-dog-on-the-moon-458/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/first-dog-on-the-moon-458/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 10:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>

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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Federal Budget Live Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/federal-budget-live-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/federal-budget-live-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 10:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come join Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane and economist Nicholas Gruen, fresh from the lock-up&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;along with the usual suspects of First Dog on the Moon, Crikey editor Sophie Black and politics wonk Charles Richardson&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;as they discuss the cuts, deficits, long-term unemployed and Wayne Swan&#8217;s garish purple tie. The Crikey budget live blog is on right now, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-budget media wrap: what they&#8217;re saying</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/post-budget-media-wrap-what-theyre-saying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/post-budget-media-wrap-what-theyre-saying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 10:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many of Australia’s finest political journalists it’s out of the lock-up and straight to the bar — but not before filing copy for tomorrow’s edition. Here's the initial round-up of the first impressions of budget 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>The politics: it won’t save the government, but it won’t kill it</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/the-politics-it-won%e2%80%99t-save-the-government-but-it-won%e2%80%99t-kill-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/the-politics-it-won%e2%80%99t-save-the-government-but-it-won%e2%80%99t-kill-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 10:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In truth Wayne Swan has produced a budget that is hard to distinguish from his effort last year or in 2008. There’s the same unwillingness to cut deeply into sensitive spending areas, in favour of fiddling at the margin and cutting rats-and-mice spending. There’s the same lingering revenue impacts of economic disruption that we saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keane: the challenge of Swan’s two-speed budget</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/keane-the-challenge-of-swan%e2%80%99s-two-speed-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/keane-the-challenge-of-swan%e2%80%99s-two-speed-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 10:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A collapse in receipts has ripped a $16 billion hole in government finances over this year and next. Treasurer Wayne Swan has revealed a budget deficit for 2011-12 of $22.6 billion, up $10.3 billion from November. This year’s deficit has increased $8 billion to $49.4 billion.]]></description>
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		<title>Budget wellbeing: Australia’s lead role</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/budget-wellbeing-australia%e2%80%99s-lead-role/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/budget-wellbeing-australia%e2%80%99s-lead-role/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 10:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the current British and French prime ministers bemoan the inadequacy of GDP to measuring their citizens’ wellbeing, for over a decade Australian bureaucrats have been getting on with building the means by which we could take a more sophisticated approach, writes <b>Nicholas Gruen</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>No chainsaw massacre, just modest cuts from Swan</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/no-chainsaw-massacre-just-modest-cuts-from-swan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/no-chainsaw-massacre-just-modest-cuts-from-swan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 10:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For this year's federal budget Wayne Swan once again promised <em>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre</em> and delivered <em>Twilight</em>, with a suite of modest spending cuts over the remainder of this financial year and then the four years over the forward estimates.]]></description>
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		<title>Gruen: welcome our new, riskier budget</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/gruen-welcome-our-new-riskier-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/gruen-welcome-our-new-riskier-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 10:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's one reason why the budget isn't bouncing back into surplus as fast as it went into deficit...writes <b>Nicholas Gruen</b>.]]></description>
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