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		<title>The conflicts of interest muddying the anti-pokies campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/27/the-conflicts-of-interest-muddying-the-anti-pokies-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/27/the-conflicts-of-interest-muddying-the-anti-pokies-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Bolt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Carter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with any public debate, the challenge in the pokies reform will be getting participants to put all their cards on the table and declare these conflicts as they arise. <b>Stephen Mayne</b> declares their interests on the public's behalf.
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		<title>Power Shots: four legends of political fixing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/26/power-shots-four-legends-of-political-fixing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/26/power-shots-four-legends-of-political-fixing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Barry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gina Rinehart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Ray]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They may not punch with the same force of the past, they may no longer punch at all, but any round-up of Australian Political Fixers would be incomplete without mentioning the men who made fixing an art form.]]></description>
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		<title>Helen Coonan&#8217;s valedictory speech</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/08/18/helen-coonans-valedictory-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/08/18/helen-coonans-valedictory-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Liberal Senator and former Health minister Helen Coonan delivered her valedictory speech yesterday to the Senate. <em>Crikey</em>'s politics and public life blog <em>The Stump</em> has the complete transcript. ]]></description>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>When minimal accountability and mind-numbing tedium reign in Canberra</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/when-minimal-accountability-and-mind-numbing-tedium-reign-in-canberra/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/when-minimal-accountability-and-mind-numbing-tedium-reign-in-canberra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget estimates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supplementary Budget Estimates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Senators are conducting Supplementary Budget Estimates for the whole week, rather than sitting.  For the most part it’s a colossal waste of time and money.

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		<title>Coonan throws a right hook at Essential Research</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/10/20/cop-that-essential-research/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/10/20/cop-that-essential-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion polls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Essential Research is the Labor Party's pollster just as Crosby Textor is considered the Liberal Party's pollster," reckons Helen Coonan, in the wake of yesterday's <a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/10/20/essential-report-gfc-management-edition/">woeful</a> Essential figures. Too bad <a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/10/20/newspoll-tuesday-more-pain-for-malcolm/">Newspoll</a> reported pretty much the same thing, says <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Who cares what the Opposition say?</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/a-big-swing-and-a-miss-in-coalition-pledge-to-axe-spending-20091013-gvkx.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/a-big-swing-and-a-miss-in-coalition-pledge-to-axe-spending-20091013-gvkx.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Reduction Strategy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=92765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Coalition is finally learning that since they're not in government, media focus is on personalities not politics. But what is their latest debt reduction strategy and is it a good plan?]]></description>
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		<title>Turnbull&#8217;s debt plan to cut $12b a year</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/turnbulls-debt-plan-to-cut-12b-a-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/turnbulls-debt-plan-to-cut-12b-a-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliamentary Budget Office]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull tried to get some of the spotlight off his leadership by launching a "debt reduction strategy", representing a major shift back toward the Coalition’s traditional rhetoric of small government.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Malcolm and Joe, shoulder to shoulder in the thick of it</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/malcolm-and-joe-shoulder-to-shoulder-in-the-thick-of-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/malcolm-and-joe-shoulder-to-shoulder-in-the-thick-of-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Andrew Crook </b>attended this morning's "united front" press conference at Melbourne's Treasury Place. What was it like? Who asked the hard questions about blackface?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget 2010]]></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>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Turnbull&#8217;s front bench: clash of the chihuahuas</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/23/turnbulls-front-bench-clash-of-the-chihuahuas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/23/turnbulls-front-bench-clash-of-the-chihuahuas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Robb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal party of australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sophia mirabella]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to female ministerial representation,  the conservative side has lifted its game. 7 of Labor’s 30 ministers are women, compared to 7 of 32 on the Coalition side, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The ABC gets off lightly at Senate Estimates</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/21/the-abc-gets-off-lightly-at-senate-estimates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/21/the-abc-gets-off-lightly-at-senate-estimates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ABC Managing Director Mark Scott and the ABC had their easiest appearance at Senate Estimates for years, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Howard and Coonan: Friends of the ABC?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/12/howard-and-coonan-friends-of-the-abc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/12/howard-and-coonan-friends-of-the-abc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[junk food advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the election slipping away, Howard and Coonan have slithered up to the ABC audience and dangled $80 million for a new children's digital channel, writes Glenn Dyer.]]></description>
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