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		<title>Give fixed four-year terms (and the NSW ALP) the flick</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/in-nsw-scandal-fatigue-has-set-in-20091221-l9yl.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fixed four-year political terms should be booted. Scandal fatigue and political disengagement has set in for NSW voters and it's time for a recall election, writes NSW Nationals leader <b>Andrew Stoner</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Fixed term elections: what are the benefits?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every three years, same date: is there value in fixed term federal elections? It would cut out all the "will he, won't he " on whether PM Kevin Rudd will call an early election.]]></description>
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		<title>Territory set to sail uncharted constitutional waters</title>
		<link>http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2009/08/fixed-term-parliaments-face-test-in-northern-territory.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The upheaval in the Northern Territory government could result in the first constitutional test of Australia's move to fixed-term Parliaments, says the <em>ABC</em>'s resident wonk <b>Antony Green</b>. Will the NT ALP sit it out until 2012, or play some tricky numbers games to wrangle an early election?]]></description>
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