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	<title>Crikey &#187; Federal Election 2010</title>
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		<title>Coup anniversary: where are they now?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/24/coup-anniversary-where-are-they-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/24/coup-anniversary-where-are-they-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alister Jordan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Charlton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Ludwig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Shorten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david feeney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[don farrell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Faulkner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Bitar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lachlan Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsay Tanner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Arbib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Howes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Paul Barry</b> and <b>Matthew Knott</b> look back at the main players in the Night of the Long Knives: where are they now?]]></description>
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		<title>The 2010 Australian election study</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2011/04/11/essential-research-53-47-and-the-2010-australian-election-study/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2011/04/11/essential-research-53-47-and-the-2010-australian-election-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Bowe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest Essential Research is in, with one particular graph showing <em>when</em> voters decided who they were voting for in last year's election, reports <b>William Bowe</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Post-poll ALP review to home in on direct election</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/16/post-poll-alp-review-to-home-in-on-direct-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/16/post-poll-alp-review-to-home-in-on-direct-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Butler]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=204004</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bracks-Faulkner-Carr post-election review into the current state of the Labor Party will recommend radical revamps to the party's rapidly congealing internal structure, including multiple direct election proposals to belatedly re-energise the grassroots.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Understanding polls: margins of error</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/11/understanding-polls-margins-of-error/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/11/understanding-polls-margins-of-error/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspolls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=195947</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you follow the political news then you probably have come across discussion of poll results that are within or beyond the "margin of error". What is it?  Lecturer, political analyst and blogger <b>David Mallard</b> explains.]]></description>
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		<title>Pobjie&#8217;s year in review: perfect &#8217;10 for ruction, discord and Hey Hey&#8217;s demise</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/20/pobjies-year-in-review-perfect-10-for-ruction-discord-and-hey-heys-demise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/20/pobjies-year-in-review-perfect-10-for-ruction-discord-and-hey-heys-demise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 in review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Bolt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Greens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal miners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collingwood Football Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hey Hey It's Saturday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Assange rape case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t think it would be hyperbolic to say that 2010 has been the most momentous and exciting year since the dawn of time, writes <b>Ben Pobjie</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Newspoll: back to 50-50</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2010/12/06/newspoll-50-50-5/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2010/12/06/newspoll-50-50-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Bowe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Greens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor party]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=191046</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest Newspoll has the two-party vote at 50-50, after an anomalous 52-48 in Labor’s favour a fortnight ago. The Labor lead from a fortnight ago may have proved ephemeral, but the improvement in Julia Gillard’s personal ratings has mostly stuck, reports <b>William Bowe</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s parliament the worst in the world</title>
		<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4768d690-f760-11df-8b42-00144feab49a.html#axzz16XGUOHMg</link>
		<comments>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4768d690-f760-11df-8b42-00144feab49a.html#axzz16XGUOHMg#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=189288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The outsider-looking-in article makes for great reading and this <em>Financial Times</em> article dissing Australia's farcical Question Time, the factional warlords running the two parties and this year's riotous prime ministerial spill is a beauty.]]></description>
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		<title>Tony&#8217;s year of cheap shots</title>
		<link>http://newmatilda.com/2010/11/26/slogans-not-policies-0</link>
		<comments>http://newmatilda.com/2010/11/26/slogans-not-policies-0#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 01:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=188940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite policy costings that didn't add up and crass "stop the boats" slogans, the Tony Abbott-led Coalition came very close to winning the federal election. writes <b>Ben Eltham</b> examines the year that was for the man that was nearly PM.]]></description>
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		<title>Farr: Gillard&#8217;s got grit</title>
		<link>http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/malcolmfarr/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/gillard_grit_wins_title/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/malcolmfarr/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/gillard_grit_wins_title/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=188758</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The fact that Julia Gillard managed to knock off her old deputy, negotiate power after a hung parliament and still remain popular in her party is testament to her fighting skills this year, declares <b>Malcolm Farr</b>]]></description>
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		<title>Nielsen: 51-49 to Coalition</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2010/11/21/nielsen-51-49-to-coalition-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2010/11/21/nielsen-51-49-to-coalition-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Bowe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=187383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest Nielsen poll sees a lean to the Coalition in the two-party preferred vote of <b>51-49</b> and Labor trailing in the primary vote, but Julia Gillard's personal ratings remain higher at 54%, reports <b>William Bowe</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Media heat map: Bolt&#8217;s (boat) people</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/16/media-heat-map-bolts-boat-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/16/media-heat-map-bolts-boat-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Bolt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=186362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing on with our look at election coverage, this week we'll start looking at opinion columnists, writes <b>Jason Wilson, lecturer in journalism at the University of Canberra</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>How the ALP went from a political juggernaut to a complete fiasco</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2010/11/12/how-the-mighty-fell/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2010/11/12/how-the-mighty-fell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=185319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the astonishing things about the federal election result is how the ALP managed to destroy such an enormous amount of public goodwill over such a relatively small time frame, writes <b>Possum Comitatus</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Richardson: Gillard has a lot of work to do</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/for-heavens-sake-pm-expose-the-greens/story-e6frg6zo-1225952290758</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/for-heavens-sake-pm-expose-the-greens/story-e6frg6zo-1225952290758#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=185267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Labor bombed on climate change, rushed to the federal election with barely developed policies and then looked surprised when it blew up in its face. Gillard should take a leaf from the Bob Brown book of politics, declares Labor stalwart <b>Graham Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Media heat map: the papers that brought down the ALP in Qld</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/02/media-heat-map-the-papers-that-brought-down-the-alp-in-qld/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/02/media-heat-map-the-papers-that-brought-down-the-alp-in-qld/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=182578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So why did the ALP draw a blank in the four tropical seats in Queensland after holding three (Leichhardt, Dawson and notionally Herbert) before August 21st? Part of an answer might come from seeing what the papers in the major centres in those electorates were reporting on during the campaign, writes <b>Jason Wilson</b>, lecturer in journalism at the University of Canberra.]]></description>
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		<title>McCrann: Gillard&#8217;s trio of lies</title>
		<link>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/terry-mccranns-column/three-big-promises-three-big-lies/story-e6frfig6-1225943934181</link>
		<comments>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/terry-mccranns-column/three-big-promises-three-big-lies/story-e6frfig6-1225943934181#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>f79</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=181265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the election campaign Julia Gillard made three big promises - concerning boats, carbon tax and miners - and all of them have amounted to big fat nothing, says <b>Terry McCrann</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Grattan: A nation stuck in a gridlock</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/poll-reveals-main-parties-parlous-state-20101024-16z6x.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/poll-reveals-main-parties-parlous-state-20101024-16z6x.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=180531</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two months on from the election and Australia <em>still</em> hasn't made its mind up over who should run the nation, according to the latest Nielsen poll. It's looking tough for PM Gillard. writes <b>Michelle Grattan</b>]]></description>
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		<title>Labor&#8217;s new direction on asylum seekers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/19/labors-new-direction-on-asylum-seekers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/19/labors-new-direction-on-asylum-seekers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Buckmaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children in detention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detention centres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=179089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Crikey Media Wrap</b>: Yesterday the Gillard administration did the seemingly unthinkable: they outlined -- gasp! -- a slightly different policy direction on refugee and asylum seeker processing.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Being prime ministerial</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/14/crikey-says-being-prime-ministerial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/14/crikey-says-being-prime-ministerial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=178200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Julia Gillard 'prime ministerial'? And if she isn't, does it matter? Gillard formulation of national leadership, in both style and substance, is entirely different to anything we have known before.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/14/crikey-says-being-prime-ministerial/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>MacKerras: plan to vote next on October 19, 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/13/mackerras-plan-to-vote-next-on-october-19-2013/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/13/mackerras-plan-to-vote-next-on-october-19-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm MacKerras</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=177987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel emboldened now to name Saturday, October 19, 2013 as the date for our 44th general election for the House of Representatives.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/13/mackerras-plan-to-vote-next-on-october-19-2013/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Odd things in the Green vote</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2010/10/11/odd-things-in-the-green-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2010/10/11/odd-things-in-the-green-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Greens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donkey votes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[informal voting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=177673</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where the Greens candidates sit on the ballot paper has an impact on the size of the vote they receive, <em>beyond</em> a standard donkey vote. The closer to the top of the ballot paper, the bigger the swing to the Greens candidate. <b>Possum Comitatus</b> explains.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2010/10/11/odd-things-in-the-green-vote/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Newspoll: still 50-50</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2010/10/12/newspoll-50-50-4/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2010/10/12/newspoll-50-50-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Bowe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspoll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=177663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest Newspoll shows the parties still araldited together on <b>50-50</b> with the two party preferred. But Tony Abbott's person ratings have dropped a whopping 9 points, says <b>William Bowe</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2010/10/12/newspoll-50-50-4/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Westpoll: swing to federal Labor</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2010/10/11/westpoll-52-48-to-federal-coalition-in-wa/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2010/10/11/westpoll-52-48-to-federal-coalition-in-wa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wa liberals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westpoll]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=177408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s West Australian carries a Westpoll survey of federal voting intention, with the usual small sample and large margin of error. The poll has the Coalition with a two-party lead of <b>52-48</b>, says <b>William Bowe</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2010/10/11/westpoll-52-48-to-federal-coalition-in-wa/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The lonely island of centrism</title>
		<link>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Its-just-a-jump-to-the-left-pd20101007-9YRQU?OpenDocument&#038;src=sph&#038;WELCOME=AUTHENTICATED%20REMEMBER</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Its-just-a-jump-to-the-left-pd20101007-9YRQU?OpenDocument&#038;src=sph&#038;WELCOME=AUTHENTICATED%20REMEMBER#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACTU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Truss]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=176874</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's a game of push me-pull me being played in Canberra this week, with the ACTU trying to pull the ALP back to the Left, while Liberal MPs attempt to drag the party back to the right, says <b>Rob Burgess</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Our bogan Howard-copy PM</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/all-hail-the-queen-of-the-bogans/story-e6frg6zo-1225935133742</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/all-hail-the-queen-of-the-bogans/story-e6frg6zo-1225935133742#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[realpolitik]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=176849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PM Gillard is appearing remarkably similar to ex-PM Howard, writes <b>Samantha Maiden</b>, from the "foreign policy is not my passion" line to her Realpolitik approach. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/all-hail-the-queen-of-the-bogans/story-e6frg6zo-1225935133742/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gillard&#8217;s safe but her ability to legislate isn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/04/mungo-gillards-safe-but-her-ability-to-legislate-isnt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/04/mungo-gillards-safe-but-her-ability-to-legislate-isnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 03:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mungo MacCallum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mungo MacCallum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Bandt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Wilkie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Greens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Katter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Slipper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Windsor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=176030</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Julia Gillard can afford to be reasonably satisfied with the first week of the rest of her government. But the crossbenchers are ready and eager to exploit their temporary power bases, particularly on climate change and the war in Afghanistan.
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/04/mungo-gillards-safe-but-her-ability-to-legislate-isnt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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