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	<title>Crikey &#187; gst</title>
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		<title>GST push on overseas purchases least of retail&#8217;s woes</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/12/gst-push-on-overseas-purchases-least-of-retails-woes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/12/gst-push-on-overseas-purchases-least-of-retails-woes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Schwab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flight Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerry Harvey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graham turling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mark mcinnes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online retailing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission inquiry into retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solomon lew]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=268127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The push by some Australian retailers for the government to apply GST on overseas retail purchases continues in earnest, despite the cost of the proposals.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dick Smith backs Gerry Harvey&#8217;s call for online GST</title>
		<link>http://www.thepowerindex.com.au/power-move/dick-smith-gerry-harvey-right-to-criticise-online-gst-tax-exemption/20120108909</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepowerindex.com.au/power-move/dick-smith-gerry-harvey-right-to-criticise-online-gst-tax-exemption/20120108909#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dick smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerry Harvey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=267481</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneur Dick Smith has backed electronics mogul Gerry Harvey in his fight to have GST applied to online purchases from overseas.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Productivity needs a shot in the arm &#8212; why not a GST boost?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/18/productivity-needs-a-shot-in-the-arm-why-not-a-gst-boost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/18/productivity-needs-a-shot-in-the-arm-why-not-a-gst-boost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Hewson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john key]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Keating]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=253390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iin a political climate where people are craving leadership, and Australia’s productivity needs a desperate shot in the arm, advocating a tax swap should be opportune, writes <b>Adam Creighton</b>, a research fellow at The Centre For Independent Studies.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/18/productivity-needs-a-shot-in-the-arm-why-not-a-gst-boost/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>States sing the same old tune at tax forum</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/05/states-sing-the-same-old-tune-at-tax-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/05/states-sing-the-same-old-tune-at-tax-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Oakeshott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Forum]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=250992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week's tax summit -- sorry, forum -- comes with low expectations, and so far seems to be meeting them.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/05/states-sing-the-same-old-tune-at-tax-forum/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Taking up the Whittaker challenge: examining The Daily Tele&#8217;s GST coverage</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/21/taking-up-the-whittaker-challenge-examining-the-daily-teles-gst-coverage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/21/taking-up-the-whittaker-challenge-examining-the-daily-teles-gst-coverage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Telegraph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Whittaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=236968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, in the latest salvo in The Daily Telegraph's war with the Gillard government, baby-faced editor Paul Whittaker decided to lay down a challenge to the office of communications minister Stephen Conroy.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/21/taking-up-the-whittaker-challenge-examining-the-daily-teles-gst-coverage/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>Winning</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/21/crikey-says-winning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/21/crikey-says-winning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Ltd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Whittaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Conroy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the daily telegraph]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=236853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the library?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/21/crikey-says-winning/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crikey says: helps to have a long memory</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/06/crikey-says-helps-to-have-a-long-memory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/06/crikey-says-helps-to-have-a-long-memory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multi Party Climate Change Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT Intervention]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=233592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Put it down to another case of the Perpetual Present to which some members of the Press Gallery are so prone...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/06/crikey-says-helps-to-have-a-long-memory/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Carbon pricing: is it really the GST revisited?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/29/carbon-pricing-is-it-really-the-gst-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/29/carbon-pricing-is-it-really-the-gst-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon pricing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=232268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new tax, praised by policy nerds but distrusted by the general population: it's not hard to pick the analogy between carbon pricing and the GST.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/29/carbon-pricing-is-it-really-the-gst-revisited/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>War on the middle class? More a war on our kids</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/11/war-on-the-middle-class-more-a-war-on-our-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/11/war-on-the-middle-class-more-a-war-on-our-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 03:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class welfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=222517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The reaction to the budget shows Labor can't win on middle-class welfare. But Coalition complaints about the lack of a carbon price don't stack up.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/11/war-on-the-middle-class-more-a-war-on-our-kids/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>Checking the docket on a carbon price</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/05/where-does-a-carbon-price-fit-in-an-average-household-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/05/where-does-a-carbon-price-fit-in-an-average-household-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity pricing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=215610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Treasury's figures on the impact of a carbon price undermine the case for compensating middle-income households.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/05/where-does-a-carbon-price-fit-in-an-average-household-budget/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>64</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richard Farmer&#8217;s Chunky Bits: NSW Labor melting at the polls</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/25/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-nsw-labor-melting-at-the-polls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/25/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-nsw-labor-melting-at-the-polls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 NSW election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antarctic ice sheet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PIIGS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portugal economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supermarket wars]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=213093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The meaningful polls. With minds at last as concentrated on voting as they are ever likely to be, this is the time to start taking the opinion polls seriously. And unless the people of New South Wales have been party to one of the greatest ever deceptions in the history of political polling, Labor is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stuart MacGill&#8217;s fast food sponsorship wrong &#8216;un</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/09/stuart-macgills-fast-food-sponsorship-wrong-un/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/09/stuart-macgills-fast-food-sponsorship-wrong-un/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stuart macgill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=208976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crikey readers have their say.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/09/stuart-macgills-fast-food-sponsorship-wrong-un/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Retailers and the loophole that wasn&#8217;t there</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/retailers-and-the-loophole-that-wasnt-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/retailers-and-the-loophole-that-wasnt-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GST exemption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxation law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Internet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=198014</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The retail lobby against the internet has successfully seeded the idea that there is a GST "loophole." But no such loophole exists and and if they think it does, they're in a lot of trouble.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/retailers-and-the-loophole-that-wasnt-there/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>GST $1000 threshold: retailers&#8217; share in more trouble than Harvey&#8217;s image</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/gst-1000-threshold-retailers-share-in-more-trouble-than-harveys-image/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/gst-1000-threshold-retailers-share-in-more-trouble-than-harveys-image/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerry Harvey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst payments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail sales figures]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=197962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Online purchasing, whether it is from Australian or foreign websites, will transform retail in the coming decades, delivering lower prices, greater choice and, almost inevitably, fewer local retail jobs, writes <b>Dr Richard Denniss</b>, executive director of The Australia Institute.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/20/gst-1000-threshold-retailers-share-in-more-trouble-than-harveys-image/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Just another form of parallel importing</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/01/04/just-another-form-of-parallel-importing/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/01/04/just-another-form-of-parallel-importing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GST for internet purchases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvey Norman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online shopping]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=195269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether it be Woolworths and Coles in food and liquor or Woolies, Coles, JB and Harvey Norman in electrical goods or Myer and David Jones in department stores, the power is in the hands of the major retailers. How sensible the government isn't stampeded to change, writes <b>Richard Farmer</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/01/04/just-another-form-of-parallel-importing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Coalition strains in the UK</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2010/12/21/coalition-strains-in-the-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2010/12/21/coalition-strains-in-the-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK hung parliament]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=194440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The coalition in the UK between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats struck <b>Richard Farmer</b> as mightily strange from the moment it was formed. It's like the Australian Democrats supporting the GST -- the party never recovered from that.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2010/12/21/coalition-strains-in-the-uk/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why Federalism is stuffed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/22/why-federalism-is-stuffed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/22/why-federalism-is-stuffed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eyjafjallajokull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=132605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One <em>Crikey</em> reader writes that all the brouhaha, posturing, chest beating, and COAGulation, shows what is wrong with federalism. Plus, readers weigh in on the GST, the ABC and human rights.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/22/why-federalism-is-stuffed/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd is running out of time to deliver on health</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/21/rudd-can-change-the-gst-any-time-he-likes-but-there-isnt-much-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/21/rudd-can-change-the-gst-any-time-he-likes-but-there-isnt-much-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Barnett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospital reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate obstructionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=132262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Colin Barnett can't wreck the health deal: only the Senate can. But with only three sitting weeks left before the election, will the "states' house" thwart the will of the states?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/21/rudd-can-change-the-gst-any-time-he-likes-but-there-isnt-much-time/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fighting for the states&#8217; right to exist</title>
		<link>http://www.pipingshrike.com/2010/04/avoiding-the-hole-in-the-middle.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.pipingshrike.com/2010/04/avoiding-the-hole-in-the-middle.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Bligh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Barnett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Brumby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristina Keneally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lenore Taylor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=132207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd's political agenda was wrapped up in a hospital plan. The historic health reform deal was only partly about health and the GST, but more about fighting for the states' rights and their right to exist.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.pipingshrike.com/2010/04/avoiding-the-hole-in-the-middle.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>First Dog Explains the GST</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/20/first-dog-explains-the-gst/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/20/first-dog-explains-the-gst/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eyjafjallajokull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristina Keneally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristina Keneally's Hair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=131796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[and the Federal Government's model for Health Funding]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/20/first-dog-explains-the-gst/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kohler: Bugger health, this is all about Howard&#8217;s GST stuff-up</title>
		<link>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/COAG-Kevin-Rudd-GST-health-reform-economy-pd20100420-4NSGE?OpenDocument&#038;src=sph</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/COAG-Kevin-Rudd-GST-health-reform-economy-pd20100420-4NSGE?OpenDocument&#038;src=sph#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hosptial reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=131978</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The debate about national control over health and hospitals is just Rudd's Trojan tax horse, writes <b>Alan Kohler</b>. Kevin Rudd wants to wrestle back the GST from the states who've just wasted all the cash John Howard recklessly gave them.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/COAG-Kevin-Rudd-GST-health-reform-economy-pd20100420-4NSGE?OpenDocument&#038;src=sph/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stott Despoja: Winning Senate friends and influencing cross-bench people</title>
		<link>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/These-senators-are-too-cross-by-far-pd20100315-3JQQJ?OpenDocument&#038;src=blb</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/These-senators-are-too-cross-by-far-pd20100315-3JQQJ?OpenDocument&#038;src=blb#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natasha stott despoja]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paid parental leave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate obstructionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=123043</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Publicly attacking Senators who block government plans is a fairly novel way of winning their support, when all they need is a bit of charming, explains former senator <b>Natasha Stott Despoja</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/These-senators-are-too-cross-by-far-pd20100315-3JQQJ?OpenDocument&#038;src=blb/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>From gatekeeper to gridlock &#8212; a brief history of Labor obstructionism</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/11/from-gatekeeper-to-gridlock-a-brief-history-of-labor-obstructionism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/11/from-gatekeeper-to-gridlock-a-brief-history-of-labor-obstructionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telstra]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=122399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quit the high horse act on Senate obstructionism, Labor. As the record of the Howard Government shows, what goes around comes around.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/11/from-gatekeeper-to-gridlock-a-brief-history-of-labor-obstructionism/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gittins: Just because you don&#8217;t understand it, doesn&#8217;t mean the ETS is bad</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/mealymouthed-pollies-see-voters-as-a-bunch-of-suckers-20100209-npja.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/mealymouthed-pollies-see-voters-as-a-bunch-of-suckers-20100209-npja.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=115427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the GST scare campaign? We're seeing a similar thing now with Rudd's ETS and Abbott's alternative plan is just puffery. Don't let fear of change drive us, writes <b>Ross Gittins</b>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/mealymouthed-pollies-see-voters-as-a-bunch-of-suckers-20100209-npja.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Great myths in Australian politics: GST almost cost Howard &#8217;98 election</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/09/great-myths-in-australian-politics-gst-almost-cost-howard-98-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/09/great-myths-in-australian-politics-gst-almost-cost-howard-98-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Beazley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspoll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pauline Hanson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=115166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The GST didn't nearly lose John Howard the election in 1998, instead it's the only reason he stayed in office. Just check out the Newspoll ratings <em>before</em> the GST announcement, says <b>Stephen Spencer</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/09/great-myths-in-australian-politics-gst-almost-cost-howard-98-election/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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