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	<title>Crikey &#187; housing affordability</title>
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		<title>Will the housing boom continue?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/12/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/12/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 03:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Home owners mini-boom bubble to burst? Global warming by any other name, don't worry about the features, check the news.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>ABS housing figures: first home buyers boom goes through the roof</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/12/abs-housing-figures-first-home-buyers-boom-goes-through-the-roof/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/12/abs-housing-figures-first-home-buyers-boom-goes-through-the-roof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 03:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The boosts to the first home buyers grants for new and existing housing have had a dramatic impact on levels of demand in the housing sector.
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		<title>Crikey Counterpoint: the Australian property market</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/30/crikey-counterpoint-the-australian-property-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/30/crikey-counterpoint-the-australian-property-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crikey Counterpoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first home owners grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rismark]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australia’s residential property market delivered a resilient performance during the first quarter, with the RP Data-Rismark National Dwelling Value Index rising 1.6%, writes <b>Christopher Joye</b>. Poppycock, says <b>Adam Schwab</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>First home owner grant: just making vendors richer</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/27/first-home-owner-grant-just-making-vendors-richer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/27/first-home-owner-grant-just-making-vendors-richer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Schwab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first home owners grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RuddBank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first home owners grant, especially in its boosted form, is not a policy which benefit first home buyers, but one which will lock them into a lifetime of possibly unserviceable debt.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>First Home Buyer Grant working for whom?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/24/first-home-buyer-grant-working-for-whom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/24/first-home-buyer-grant-working-for-whom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first home owners grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first home buyers grant has gone straight into higher house prices, writes <b>David Ember</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richard Farmer&#8217;s political bite-sized meaty chunks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney Morning Herald]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rudd a reluctant bank critic ... Back to their best ... The vanquished and the victor.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>RBA leaves rates on hold</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/rba-leaves-rates-on-hold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/rba-leaves-rates-on-hold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserv bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Signs that global economic activity is easing are unlikely to have a big impact on interest rates either here or overseas in the immediate term, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>House prices are falling &#8230; it&#8217;s official</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/04/house-prices-are-falling-its-official/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/04/house-prices-are-falling-its-official/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ABS figures on Australian house prices for the June quarter confirm what we all know, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/02/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/02/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Downer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Downer ... ABC Learning ... Gippsland ... the National Film and Sound Archive ... offensive words and censorship ... ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/02/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gippsland votes against the tough decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/30/gippsland-votes-against-the-tough-decisions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/30/gippsland-votes-against-the-tough-decisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What a shock result in Gippsland! A deeply rural electorate, one that repeatedly re-elected the profoundly thick Peter McGauran, has returned a Nationals candidate yet again, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/30/gippsland-votes-against-the-tough-decisions/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Briefly Business: Property, gloom in june, TiVo</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/30/briefly-business-property-gloom-in-june-tivo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/30/briefly-business-property-gloom-in-june-tivo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insider trading ... Property moves ... Gloom in June ... $699 for a TiVo -- tell 'em they’re dreaming.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/30/briefly-business-property-gloom-in-june-tivo/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/27/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/27/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The housing affordability crisis ... Brendan Nelson and the Democrats ... Zimbabwe ...polygamy ... climate change ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/27/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fixing politics: the housing affordability crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/26/fixing-politics-the-housing-affordability-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/26/fixing-politics-the-housing-affordability-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petrol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State & Territory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Housing affordability in Australia is one of those big, complex issues that governments find so difficult. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/26/fixing-politics-the-housing-affordability-crisis/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>FY08: less than a bottler for our finance &#8220;experts&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/26/fy08-less-than-a-bottler-for-our-finance-experts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/26/fy08-less-than-a-bottler-for-our-finance-experts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are good years, there are bad years, and then there is financial year 2008. <b>Adam Schwab</b> casts his eye over bad year in the life and times of our finance experts. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/06/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/06/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affordability crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first home buyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petroleum sectors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban taskforce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Urban Taskforce Australia ... housing affordability ... inflation ... the Anglican church ... Melbourne can live without the F1 ... ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/06/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ten really clever ideas for fixing inflation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/24/ten-really-clever-ideas-for-fixing-inflation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/24/ten-really-clever-ideas-for-fixing-inflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic ills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[household demand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saul eslake]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are more cures to Australia's economic ills than the new government is letting on. <b>Thomas Hunter</b> asked a group of leading economists for their ideas on lowering inflation and reassuring the stockmarket.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crikey Crib Sheets Part 1: Policy Comparisons</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/19/crikey-crib-sheets-part-1-policy-comparisons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/19/crikey-crib-sheets-part-1-policy-comparisons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affordability crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crikey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal state relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Presenting your cut-out-and-keep guide to what each party stands for on a range of key policy areas.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>No new supply in either housing policy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/13/no-new-supply-in-either-housing-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/13/no-new-supply-in-either-housing-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free savings accounts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both Labor and the Coalition have now committed to setting up special low-tax savings accounts for Australians to buy their first home. Anna Tweeddale and Ben Eltham argue they may actually make housing affordability worse.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s first home owner saver account: useless</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/05/rudds-first-home-owner-saver-account-useless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/05/rudds-first-home-owner-saver-account-useless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Labor’s plan to combat housing affordability, like most political solutions to an economic problem, will almost certainly be utterly useless. The problem with housing affordability is a simple demand and supply equation – more people are moving to major Australian cities than dwellings are being constructed.]]></description>
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		<title>MacCormack: Be wary of politicians talking about selling land</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/17/maccormack-be-wary-of-politicians-talking-about-selling-land/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/17/maccormack-be-wary-of-politicians-talking-about-selling-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affordability crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john fahey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Talk, nay hyperbole, from both parties obscures the fact that neither side wants to do anything serious about housing affordability, writes David MacCormack. ]]></description>
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		<title>Crikey Policy Comparison Pt 2: Housing affordability</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/17/crikey-policy-comparison-pt-2-housing-affordability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/17/crikey-policy-comparison-pt-2-housing-affordability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Downer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non proliferation treaty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[untoward]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The housing affordability crisis has been front and centre of this campaign, and when it comes to the two major parties, it's come down to the battling for the votes of first time home owners. Each party is promising to help save for that much needed deposit, the question is how?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/27/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/27/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affordability crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sportingbet australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Home loans and affordability ... Brough’s bulldozing backyard blitz ... Julia Gillard was a union lawyer, so what? ... Labor preferences ... government ads ... Rugby World Cup ...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/27/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;CrateGate&#8217;, citizen journalists join election action</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/27/crategate-citizen-journalists-join-election-action/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/27/crategate-citizen-journalists-join-election-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affordability crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[milk crates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[queensland university of technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those who wonder whether the Australian blogosphere and “citizen journalism” will ever make a difference to politics, “CrateGate” – a mini controversy generated on the You Decide 2007 site - is providing some thought provoking material.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/27/crategate-citizen-journalists-join-election-action/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Queensland preference negotiations reveal the state of play</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/25/queensland-preference-negotiations-reveal-the-state-of-play/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/25/queensland-preference-negotiations-reveal-the-state-of-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[queensland labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senate contest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are important implications of the number and range of seats in play in the House of Representatives contest for decisions about the allocation of preferences in the Senate, writes Mark Bahnisch.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/25/queensland-preference-negotiations-reveal-the-state-of-play/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>And now the good news: it’s the bad news</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/26/and-now-the-good-news-its-the-bad-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/26/and-now-the-good-news-its-the-bad-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harder than ever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kerfuffle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sub prime mortgage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a little heresy: the bad international business news is really good news.]]></description>
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