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		<title>Kevin Rudd: the G20 man with a plan</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/23/kevin-rudd-the-g20-man-with-a-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/23/kevin-rudd-the-g20-man-with-a-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With our heavy reliance on imported capital and trade, Australia goes to the G20 as a supplicant, hopeful that the rest of the world can gets its act together sufficiently to at least arrest the downward economic spiral, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Government holds the line on golden handshakes</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/18/government-holds-the-line-on-golden-handshakes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/18/government-holds-the-line-on-golden-handshakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[executive remuneration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rising tide of criticism of executive remuneration has left the Government exposed, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Latham and the Oz join forces against Rudd</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/10/latham-and-the-oz-join-forces-against-rudd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/10/latham-and-the-oz-join-forces-against-rudd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal opposition party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Latham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Mark Latham and The Australian are united as one, there is something downright unholy going on, writes ,b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/10/latham-and-the-oz-join-forces-against-rudd/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Estimates schmestimates: Opposition goes soft on the ALP</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/24/estimates-schmestimates-opposition-goes-soft-on-the-alp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/24/estimates-schmestimates-opposition-goes-soft-on-the-alp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[estimates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You get the impression from senior Coalition senators that they’re not prepared to do the hard work of sifting through material and building a case in the search for embarrassing revelations, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/24/estimates-schmestimates-opposition-goes-soft-on-the-alp/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Penny Wong is a cipher for Kevin Rudd</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/penny-wong-is-a-cipher-for-kevin-rudd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/penny-wong-is-a-cipher-for-kevin-rudd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Opposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penny Wong]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Penny Wong isn’t really to blame for the growing debacle of the Government’s emissions trading scheme plans. She’s a cipher for Kevin Rudd, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/penny-wong-is-a-cipher-for-kevin-rudd/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The coalition got it really, really wrong on the financial crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/the-coalition-got-it-really-really-wrong-on-the-financial-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/the-coalition-got-it-really-really-wrong-on-the-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Opposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking at the Essential Report from yesterday -- the magnitude of how wrong the Coalition not only got the stimulus package, but the broader GFC starts to become apparent, writes <b>Possum Comitatus</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Australia can reclaim Rio and embrace the Chinese</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/12/how-australia-can-reclaim-rio-and-embrace-the-chinese/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/12/how-australia-can-reclaim-rio-and-embrace-the-chinese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus package]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did Nambour High equip Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan to deal with all this at once? asks <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/12/how-australia-can-reclaim-rio-and-embrace-the-chinese/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stimulus à la Rudd</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/stimulus-la-rudd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/stimulus-la-rudd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[australia economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic stimulus package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The handouts this time are bigger and pitched at an entirely different group, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/stimulus-la-rudd/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Greenies of the world unite</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/greenies-of-the-world-unite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/greenies-of-the-world-unite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenpeace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tackling climate change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greenpeace's <b>Steve Campbell</b> delivers a climate change action call to arms.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/greenies-of-the-world-unite/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>This year the cut and thrust of the Budget is for real</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/this-year-the-cut-and-thrust-of-the-budget-is-for-real/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/this-year-the-cut-and-thrust-of-the-budget-is-for-real/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsay Tanner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This will be the toughest budget to frame since, probably, the recession budgets of the early 1990s, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/this-year-the-cut-and-thrust-of-the-budget-is-for-real/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Telstra&#8217;s too cool broadband bid</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/16/telstras-too-cool-broadband-bid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/16/telstras-too-cool-broadband-bid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coalition government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Which part of the word “mandatory” doesn’t Telstra understand? Asks <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/16/telstras-too-cool-broadband-bid/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Burying the OHS National Harmonisation Agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/07/burying-the-ohs-national-harmonisation-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/07/burying-the-ohs-national-harmonisation-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occupational health and safety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst all this talk of the global economic meltdown, Melbourne Cup and the Obama victory, yet another item on the Rudd Government's national agenda has been buried, writes <b>Alena Titterton</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/07/burying-the-ohs-national-harmonisation-agenda/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Labor&#8217;s new federalism shows its first cracks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/27/labors-new-federalism-shows-its-first-cracks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/27/labors-new-federalism-shows-its-first-cracks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the cooperative Labor federalism promised by Kevin Rudd had a relaxed start in late 2007, we’re now seeing the reality of different levels of government with different policy agendas and political needs trying to work together, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/27/labors-new-federalism-shows-its-first-cracks/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/07/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/07/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doom and gloom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The <i>NSW Rivers and Foreshore Act</i> ... the economy ... <i>Jihad Sheilas</i> ... Rundle, First Dog and the US elections ... Mitsubishi ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd government is bad for the arts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/21/rudd-government-is-bad-for-the-arts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/21/rudd-government-is-bad-for-the-arts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian film commission]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By eliminating the Australia on the World Stage program, the Federal Labor Government is ignoring key recommendations from many of their traditionally loyal constituents, writes Nicholas Pickard. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/21/rudd-government-is-bad-for-the-arts/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Federalism breakthrough: states say yes to cash</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/15/federalism-breakthrough-states-say-yes-to-cash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/15/federalism-breakthrough-states-say-yes-to-cash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal treasurer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kevin foley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very first day the PM is back at work the states say yes to $150 million extra cash. So there’s the federation fixed? And end to the blame game? Christian Kerr investigates.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/15/federalism-breakthrough-states-say-yes-to-cash/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Public servants on a hiding to nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/12/13/public-servants-on-a-hiding-to-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/12/13/public-servants-on-a-hiding-to-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criminal justice system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You need a pretty thick skin to be a public servant dealing with Aborigines these days as the rape case of the 10 year old Queensland girl illustrates so terribly, writes Richard Farmer.]]></description>
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