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	<title>Crikey &#187; Howard government</title>
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		<title>Better Access program: success in whose interests?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/03/better-access-program-success-in-whose-interests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/03/better-access-program-success-in-whose-interests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Sweet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Better Access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Hickie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Mendoza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neil cole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicola Roxon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Better Access program, introduced by the Howard government in 2006 to improve access to treatments for common mental disorders, was controversial before it even began.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kevin Andrews rides again in Malaysian solution</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/26/kevin-andrews-rides-again-in-malaysian-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/26/kevin-andrews-rides-again-in-malaysian-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Andrews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysian deal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=237754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Labor government, to its credit, never adopted the original Howard anti-refugee rhetoric. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/26/kevin-andrews-rides-again-in-malaysian-solution/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Howard was right on COAG &#8212; lips move but nothing sensible comes out</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/14/howard-was-right-on-coag-lips-move-but-nothing-sensible-comes-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/14/howard-was-right-on-coag-lips-move-but-nothing-sensible-comes-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national health reform agenda]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=203411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's COAG meeting was more of the same -- low farce from a useless collection of politicians.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/14/howard-was-right-on-coag-lips-move-but-nothing-sensible-comes-out/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Inspector Fahey and the politics of competence</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/08/inspector-fahey-and-the-politics-of-competence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/08/inspector-fahey-and-the-politics-of-competence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flood levy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john fahey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=201987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Fahey knows a thing or two about waste and mismanagement. But that's not why Julia Gillard put him in charge of the "Reconstruction Inspectorate".]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/08/inspector-fahey-and-the-politics-of-competence/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mubarak&#8217;s new vice-president: the Habib connection</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/31/mubaraks-new-vice-president-the-habib-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/31/mubaraks-new-vice-president-the-habib-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egypt protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal rendition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mamdouh Habib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=199782</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The man who might replace Hosni Mubarak is a torturer and murderer. He is also valued by the US Government, having played a key role in the White House's illegal rendition program. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/31/mubaraks-new-vice-president-the-habib-connection/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kohler: the Gillard regime is faceless no more</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/11/kohler-the-gillard-regime-faceless-no-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/11/kohler-the-gillard-regime-faceless-no-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Kohler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gillard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ministerial staff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudd government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=184896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The men and women who work behind the scenes advising ministers and devising their policies, etc,  definitely prefer to remain behind the scenes. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/11/kohler-the-gillard-regime-faceless-no-more/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The magical productivity of the construction industry</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/28/the-magical-productivity-of-the-construction-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/28/the-magical-productivity-of-the-construction-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Building and Construction Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Econtech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KPMG]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=181654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to building industry productivity, there's economic modeling, and then there's Econtech modeling...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/28/the-magical-productivity-of-the-construction-industry/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Howard attacks multi-culturalism, apologises for nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/29/howard-attacks-multi-culturalism-apologises-for-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/29/howard-attacks-multi-culturalism-apologises-for-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harley Dennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multiculturalism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=175186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former prime minister John Howard has dumped on "multi-cultural" continental Europe, "irrelevant" UN veto nations and the Islamic world while lauding the moral superiority of the English speakers in a speech in Washington. <b>Harley Dennett</b> reports from Washington.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/29/howard-attacks-multi-culturalism-apologises-for-nothing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>69</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lessons in competence, Part 2: the need for speed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/06/lessons-in-competence-part-2-the-need-for-speed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/06/lessons-in-competence-part-2-the-need-for-speed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudd government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=169635</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it came to competence, things didn't improve much in the Howard Government's final term. But while the Public Service was slowly improving its administration, the biggest problems were caused by ministers.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/06/lessons-in-competence-part-2-the-need-for-speed/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The myth of governmental competence</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/03/keane-essay-the-myth-of-governmental-competence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/03/keane-essay-the-myth-of-governmental-competence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Keane on the Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hung parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=169403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to its claims of administrative competence, the Coalition had a series of costly blunders when in Government.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/03/keane-essay-the-myth-of-governmental-competence/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>111</slash:comments>
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		<title>NT intervention three years on: government&#8217;s progress report is disturbing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/21/nt-intervention-three-years-on-governments-progress-report-is-disturbing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/21/nt-intervention-three-years-on-governments-progress-report-is-disturbing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT Intervention]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=147148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we are halfway through the Howard government’s original normalisation phase for the NT intervention and the latest six-monthly report is both serious and disturbing, writes <b>Professor Jon Altman</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/21/nt-intervention-three-years-on-governments-progress-report-is-disturbing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd-bashing is just a little too easy</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/maintain-rage-at-howards-praetorian-guard/story-e6frg6zo-1225880108643</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/maintain-rage-at-howards-praetorian-guard/story-e6frg6zo-1225880108643#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=146171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In many ways the government is a disappointment for progressives, but it's not all bad news: Rudd's apology to the stolen generation, signing Kyoto. Let's not forget the Howard years so easily, says <b>Dennis Glover</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Singer: Abbott will fail as Howard 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/howard-fall-is-a-lesson-for-abbott/story-e6frfhqf-1225878123771</link>
		<comments>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/howard-fall-is-a-lesson-for-abbott/story-e6frfhqf-1225878123771#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=145439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's no way that Tony Abbott can be a PM possibility until he recognises the stuff ups of the Howard government and distances himself from them, says <b>Jill Singer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tanner: I was wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/all-aboard-a-quiet-revolution-on-rail-20100602-wzlt.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/all-aboard-a-quiet-revolution-on-rail-20100602-wzlt.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia Rail Track Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsay Tanner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[railways]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=143360</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Lindsay Tanner</b> takes a leaf out of Kevin Rudd’s book of self-flagellation, admitting that as a young opposition transport spokesman he was wrong to attack the Howard government’s rail reform strategy.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/all-aboard-a-quiet-revolution-on-rail-20100602-wzlt.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>From Howard to Rudd: what&#8217;s changed?</title>
		<link>http://eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=21552</link>
		<comments>http://eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=21552#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 23:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=141638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Howard years are a stain on Australian human rights history, writes <b>Tony Kevin</b>. Kevin Rudd disappoints us in other ways, most importantly through his lack of climate change action.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where did all the Howard faithful go?</title>
		<link>http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2010/04/07/turnbull-out/</link>
		<comments>http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2010/04/07/turnbull-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=128628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull is just the latest in a long list of key John Howard era figures to bow out of politics since the 2007 election loss. Is a political cleanout this big normal? asks <b>John Quiggin</b>]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PBS]]></category>
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		<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>How to site a nuclear waste dump</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/22/how-to-site-a-nuclear-waste-dump/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/22/how-to-site-a-nuclear-waste-dump/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Territory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=118335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Labor's opposition to an NT waste dump before the last election will return to haunt it as Martin Ferguson unveils a permanent waste facility this week. Where was the consent and consultation?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/22/how-to-site-a-nuclear-waste-dump/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>Grattan: Can Abbott tame the WorkChoices beast?</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/can-abbott-control-ir-monster-20100218-oipm.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/can-abbott-control-ir-monster-20100218-oipm.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[australian workplace agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battlelines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=117890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Other disposed Lib leaders wouldn't touch industrial relations with a ten foot pole, but Tony Abbott says "WorkChoices wasn't all bad" and is pushing his own, more tightly reigned in version. Will it work for Abbott? asks <b>Michelle Grattan</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Abbott buggered by his own baggage</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/27/tony-abbott-thats-the-sound-of-chickens-coming-home-to-roost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/27/tony-abbott-thats-the-sound-of-chickens-coming-home-to-roost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=112107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott is being comprehensively done over in the Australian media, but he has only himself (and the Howard Government) to blame. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does Australia need its own Iraq War inquiry?</title>
		<link>http://northcoastvoices.blogspot.com/2010/01/iraq-inquiry-so-what-did-then.html</link>
		<comments>http://northcoastvoices.blogspot.com/2010/01/iraq-inquiry-so-what-did-then.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chilcot Inquiry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=111907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/topics/chilcot_inquiry">Chilcot inquiry</a> into the UK's role in the Iraq War is heating up in Britain, with Blair and co coming under heavy scrutiny. Should the Howard government face the same treatment?]]></description>
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		<title>C&#8217;mon, Kev, show some guts: tell us where we&#8217;re weak</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/19/cmon-kev-show-some-guts-tell-us-where-were-weak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/19/cmon-kev-show-some-guts-tell-us-where-were-weak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian education union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hawke government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OECD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=110478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We need more than just idle <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-growing-challenge/story-e6frg6zo-1225820989207">talk</a> from a Prime Minister and a Treasury that knows what's needed and should have the guts to issue a report pointing out our weak areas and suggesting what needs to be done.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/19/cmon-kev-show-some-guts-tell-us-where-were-weak/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Liberals head back to the future</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/12/01/john-howard-and-the-back-to-the-future-liberals/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/12/01/john-howard-and-the-back-to-the-future-liberals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=102393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Abbott-Minchin putsch will take the Liberal Party backwards -– back beyond Turnbull, back beyond Nelson, and back, even, beyond John Howard, says <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nobody said changing the Libs was meant to be easy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/30/nobody-said-changing-the-libs-was-meant-to-be-easy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/30/nobody-said-changing-the-libs-was-meant-to-be-easy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=101900</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The core of the Liberals has always been illiberal, hostile to free thought and free trade. Remaking it as an even moderately liberal party, and breaking the conservative hegemony that John Howard established, was always going to be incredibly messy and against the odds.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/30/nobody-said-changing-the-libs-was-meant-to-be-easy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Costello: Publishing protectionism is bad &#8212; just as Farnsie</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/read-my-lips-book-decision-a-bad-ending-20091117-ik8x.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/read-my-lips-book-decision-a-bad-ending-20091117-ik8x.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parallel imports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publishing industry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Howard government's decision to lift parallel import restrictions on CDs didn't kill the Australian music industry, says <b>Peter Costello</b>, and the local public industry could survive just as well without protectionism. ]]></description>
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