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	<title>Crikey &#187; Gordon Brown</title>
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		<title>Drugs expert shown the door for disagreeing with government</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/drugs-expert-shown-the-door-for-disagreeing-with-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/drugs-expert-shown-the-door-for-disagreeing-with-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cannabis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Nutt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marijuana]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The UK's most prominent drugs expert has been kicked off a drugs advisory board for disagreeing with the government's view that cannabis should be classified as a lethal drug. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Failure or foundations for Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/failure-or-foundations-for-copenhagen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/failure-or-foundations-for-copenhagen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen Climate Change Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are currently not on track to sign a ratifiable treaty in Copenhagen but that’s not to say we shouldn’t expect key outcomes that will set us on the path to achieve this global treaty in 2010, writes <b>Erwin Jackson</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australia, you have 3 days to get your act together on climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/bangkok-climate-talks-australia-you-have-3-days-to-get-your-act-together/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/bangkok-climate-talks-australia-you-have-3-days-to-get-your-act-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangkok climate talks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen Climate Change Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bangkok's climate talks have shown that the issue of climate aid is one of the main hurdles for producing a better global deal on climate change, -- and Australia is lagging behind the pack, writes <b>Will McGoldrick</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/bangkok-climate-talks-australia-you-have-3-days-to-get-your-act-together/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Labour pains 11 years on &#8230; and no-one is listening</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/labour-pains-11-years-on-and-no-one-is-listening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/labour-pains-11-years-on-and-no-one-is-listening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week's British Labour Party conference in Brighton was supposed to act as a springboard for the desperate re-election hopes of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. It failed, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b> from London.

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		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/labour-pains-11-years-on-and-no-one-is-listening/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>A taste of the Fairfax future</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-13/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canberra Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<em>The Sun</em> has come out against Gordon Brown this morning, nicely timing it to coincide with his address at his party's national conference. Plus, what happened to <em>The Canberra Times</em>?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gordon Brown, dead PM walking</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/rundle-nothing-that-brown-could-say-would-save-him/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/rundle-nothing-that-brown-could-say-would-save-him/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[British PM Gordon Brown addressed the Labour Party conference with his party trailing around 19 points in the opinion polls. It wasn't so much about winning the next election as stopping the bleeding.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/rundle-nothing-that-brown-could-say-would-save-him/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kevin Rudd spruiks the G20; let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s not another APEC</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/25/rudd-shuns-nyc-headlines-to-push-his-g20-plan-instead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/25/rudd-shuns-nyc-headlines-to-push-his-g20-plan-instead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brad norington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Australian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd’s priority has been to sell the American foreign policy establishment on the benefits of the G20 as the “driving centre” of a new global framework. But will it become just another pointless talkfest?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/25/rudd-shuns-nyc-headlines-to-push-his-g20-plan-instead/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hockey&#8217;s economic bombast will hurt him</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/10/hockeys-economic-bombast-will-hurt-him/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/10/hockeys-economic-bombast-will-hurt-him/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter walsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Hockey yesterday committed a Coalition Government to slashing spending by more than $40 billion. Then he tweeted through Question Time, before insulting several world leaders.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/10/hockeys-economic-bombast-will-hurt-him/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>UK Afghanistan commitment unravels at remarkable speed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/17/uk-commitment-to-afghanistan-unraveling-at-a-remarkable-speed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/17/uk-commitment-to-afghanistan-unraveling-at-a-remarkable-speed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week’s funerals of the latest casualties has provoked an angry public debate about the war.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/17/uk-commitment-to-afghanistan-unraveling-at-a-remarkable-speed/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Gordon Brown did next &#8230; implode</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/rundle-what-gordon-brown-did-next-implode/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/rundle-what-gordon-brown-did-next-implode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/rundle-what-gordon-brown-did-next-implode/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The bizarre decision to hold a secret Iraq war inquiry may be the end of Gordon Brown.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/rundle-what-gordon-brown-did-next-implode/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama, Sarkozy, Chavez&#8230; Gordon</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/11/obama-sarkozy-chavez-gordon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/11/obama-sarkozy-chavez-gordon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weebl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=65778</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A lovely cartoon and tune that pretty much sums up the drabness that is Gordon Brown in about 30 seconds.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/11/obama-sarkozy-chavez-gordon/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Europe post-politics is a Brown study</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/09/rundle-europe-post-politics-is-a-brown-study/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/09/rundle-europe-post-politics-is-a-brown-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Sheridan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/09/rundle-europe-post-politics-is-a-brown-study/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown appears to have retained his death-like grip on Number 10, but little else concrete has emerged from the European elections.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/09/rundle-europe-post-politics-is-a-brown-study/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gordon Brown survives (for now): what the pundits say</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/09/gordon-brown-survives-for-now-what-the-pundits-say/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/09/gordon-brown-survives-for-now-what-the-pundits-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=65131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Early this morning local time, British MPs offered the embattled British PM a reprieve. Pundits think it won't last long.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/09/gordon-brown-survives-for-now-what-the-pundits-say/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gordon Brown survives to fight another day</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/09/gordon-brown-survives-to-fight-another-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/09/gordon-brown-survives-to-fight-another-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=65115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown faced off against rebel MPs in Committee Room 14 -- and won. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Britain v Australia: a tale of two MP scandals</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/05/crikey-says-15/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/05/crikey-says-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British MP expenses scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fitzgibbon resignation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Fitzgibbon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crikey is normally shy of the crass nationalism so readily found in the mainstream media. But for once, it’s worth pondering the effectiveness of the Australian political system...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>British Labour deathwatch, part 559</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/04/rundle-british-labour-deathwatch-part-559/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/04/rundle-british-labour-deathwatch-part-559/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hazel Blears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/04/rundle-british-labour-deathwatch-part-559/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The slow death of the entire British Labour Party of the UK continues apace, with the resignation of key ministers like Hazel Blears.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Putting Gordon Brown in a room with Susan Boyle</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/03/rundle-putting-gordon-brown-in-a-room-with-susan-boyle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/03/rundle-putting-gordon-brown-in-a-room-with-susan-boyle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hell in a handcart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Boyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[God I'm glad I'm not in Britain at the moment. If I woke tomorrow and found myself inexplicably in London I would get on the first Ryanair flight to Mogadishu, writes <b>Guy Rundle</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>NT Senator Nigel Scullion: our hero</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/22/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/22/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 03:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gurkhas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigel Scullion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=60518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Senators are now heroes in the Northern Territory... but down south they're still ratbags, says <b>Richard Farmer</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown: it&#8217;s time to end MPs&#8217; &#8220;gentlemen&#8217;s club&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/20/gordon-brown-its-time-to-end-mps-gentlemens-club/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/20/gordon-brown-its-time-to-end-mps-gentlemens-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 23:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British MP expenses scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=59688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[British PM Gordon Brown announces the need for an independent commission to monitor MPs' expenses -- as clearly self-regulation isn't working. ]]></description>
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		<title>Black days for Gordon Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/15/rundle-black-days-for-gordon-brown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/15/rundle-black-days-for-gordon-brown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 03:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British MP expenses scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[schadenfreude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=58654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The one undoubted advantage of Gordon Brown going now quickly ... is that none of us would have to watch him go slowly]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Fable: Kevin Rudd and the unusable hairdryer</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/08/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/08/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 03:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hairstyles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joanna Lumley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politicians behaving badly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourism Australia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=56631</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister's hair, illegal cigarette salesmen, paintball, tourism doing rather nicely thank you very much and Joanna Lumley gives Gordon Brown the what for.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and Brown: a not so special relationship</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/24/obama-and-brown-a-not-so-special-relationship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/24/obama-and-brown-a-not-so-special-relationship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen Elizabeth II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=53147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama is not in the Oval Office more than five minutes and the bust of Winston Churchill is sent back to the British Embassy, writes <b>Karyn McDermott</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>The spin is all in the prism</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/15/the-spin-is-all-in-the-prism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/15/the-spin-is-all-in-the-prism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political pets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=51331</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Political reporters see everything through a prism. It changes according to mood and moment, writes <b>Alastair Campbell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Grubbier than your average British Labour stuff-up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/15/grubbier-than-your-average-british-labour-stuff-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/15/grubbier-than-your-average-british-labour-stuff-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British MP expenses scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damian McBride]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political gaffe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=51329</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How is it that the British Labour party's future and reputation had been put in the hands of a man who had wrecked it once? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Governments and the capacity for revenge</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/14/governments-and-the-capacity-for-revenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/14/governments-and-the-capacity-for-revenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crikey Election Indicator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=51130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Any banker who thinks that the strategy of increasing lending margins by not passing on cuts in official interest rates is risk free should stop and consider what is happening to Telstra.]]></description>
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