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	<title>Crikey &#187; immigration</title>
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		<title>VIDEO: Inside the Indonesia-Australia people smuggling trade</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/video-inside-the-indonesia-australia-people-smuggling-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/video-inside-the-indonesia-australia-people-smuggling-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smugglers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smuggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Al Jazeera</em> goes inside a network of people smugglers taking asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia, revealing some closely-guarded secrets of the human trafficking trade. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>We think we&#8217;ve got problems &#8212; Greece has a backlog of 30,000 refugees</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/we-think-weve-got-problems-greece-has-a-backlog-of-30000-refugees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/we-think-weve-got-problems-greece-has-a-backlog-of-30000-refugees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than self-righteous indignation on asylum seekers, we need to regain our sense of perspective -- in Greece, there is an estimated backlog of at least 30,000 refugees waiting to be processed, writes <b>Tony Barrell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd is drowning on boat people</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/when-it-comes-to-the-boat-people-issue-rudd-is-drowning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/when-it-comes-to-the-boat-people-issue-rudd-is-drowning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceanic viking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/when-it-comes-to-the-boat-people-issue-rudd-is-drowning/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He may have got a bounce in the polls today, but the Prime Minister’s handling of the <em>Oceanic Viking</em> issue has been singularly inept.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/when-it-comes-to-the-boat-people-issue-rudd-is-drowning/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>Work hard for permanent residency? Why bother?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/work-hard-for-permanent-residency-why-bother/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/work-hard-for-permanent-residency-why-bother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospitality industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hsopitality training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[permanent residency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tertiary education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/work-hard-for-permanent-residency-why-bother/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader lets exposes the second-rate hospitality training given to international students hoping to gain permanent residency in Australia.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/work-hard-for-permanent-residency-why-bother/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minchin has no excuse for his ignorance</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/mungo-minchin-has-no-excuse-for-his-ignorance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/mungo-minchin-has-no-excuse-for-his-ignorance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mungo MacCallum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mungo MacCallum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change sceptics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/mungo-minchin-has-no-excuse-for-his-ignorance/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The most depressing statistic of modern times is the one that tells us that well over 50% of adult Americans do not believe in evolution. Or it was -- until Nick Minchin came along.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/mungo-minchin-has-no-excuse-for-his-ignorance/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t mention the &#8220;r&#8221; word</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/crikey-says-129/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/crikey-says-129/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsay Tanner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[population]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[population growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/crikey-says-129/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are signs that the largely undiscussed pact between Australia's major political parties not to exploit issues of race, immigration and population may be breaking down. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/crikey-says-129/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Back from the dead: Turnbull&#8217;s TPVs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/turnbull-brings-temporary-visas-back-from-the-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/turnbull-brings-temporary-visas-back-from-the-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temporary protection visa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temporary visa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/turnbull-brings-temporary-visas-back-from-the-dead/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull has announced that Temporary Protection Visas would be back under a Coalition Government. But, putting aside their humanitarian impact, all the evidence is that TPVs don't actually work.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/turnbull-brings-temporary-visas-back-from-the-dead/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>59</slash:comments>
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		<title>Myopia and forgetfulness the preferred direction on foreign policy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/myopia-and-forgetfulness-the-preferred-direction-on-foreign-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/myopia-and-forgetfulness-the-preferred-direction-on-foreign-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smuggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/myopia-and-forgetfulness-the-preferred-direction-on-foreign-policy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the Rudd Labor government was elected two years ago, there were high hopes that it would leave behind the more negative foreign policies of its predecessor Howard coalition government. What we have, though, is a foreign policy shambles.
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/myopia-and-forgetfulness-the-preferred-direction-on-foreign-policy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Memo Rudd: an asylum solution</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/memo-to-pm-re-oceanic-viking-subject-gamebreaker-option/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/memo-to-pm-re-oceanic-viking-subject-gamebreaker-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceanic viking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/memo-to-pm-re-oceanic-viking-subject-gamebreaker-option/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Bernard Keane</b> offers the Prime Minister a few thoughts on how to resolve the Oceanic Viking stand-off.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/memo-to-pm-re-oceanic-viking-subject-gamebreaker-option/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>355</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tough new restrictions on visits to detention centres</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/tough-new-restrictions-on-visits-to-detention-centres/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/tough-new-restrictions-on-visits-to-detention-centres/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chris evans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detention centres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serco]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/tough-new-restrictions-on-visits-to-detention-centres/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Serco -- the company behind troubled UK immigration detention centres and prisons and now the contractor in Australia -- has introduced a tough new regime to inhibit visitors to Australian detention centres, writes <b>Trish and John Highfield</b>.  ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/tough-new-restrictions-on-visits-to-detention-centres/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>A late scratching for Abbott</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/crikey-says-121/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/crikey-says-121/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/crikey-says-121/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Eleven people are missing, perhaps lost at sea, off the Cocos Islands. One is confirmed dead. Who does Tony Abbott choose to blame?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/crikey-says-121/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kevin Rudd knows nothing, even less than Alan Jones</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/kevin-rudd-knows-nothing-even-less-than-alan-jones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/kevin-rudd-knows-nothing-even-less-than-alan-jones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia Solution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/kevin-rudd-knows-nothing-even-less-than-alan-jones/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister has developed a too-cute-by-half strategy of professing ignorance about the handling of events in Indonesia, reflecting his ongoing struggle to find a communications strategy that will enable him to get control of the issue again.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/kevin-rudd-knows-nothing-even-less-than-alan-jones/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The distressing asylum seeker debate</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-114/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-114/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Carpenter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brian burke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cubbie Station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-114/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Strong emotions about the asylum seeker debate brings out an ugly side of the Australian character, writes one <em>Crikey</em> reader on the refugee hysteria. Plus, how accurate were Brian Burke and Alan Carpenter comparisons?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-114/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mungo: Tough stance on boat people borders on the ridiculous</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/mungo-tough-stance-on-boat-people-borders-on-the-ridiculous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/mungo-tough-stance-on-boat-people-borders-on-the-ridiculous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mungo MacCallum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mungo MacCallum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/mungo-tough-stance-on-boat-people-borders-on-the-ridiculous/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["Border protection" -- the very phrase is ominous. It evokes a country under siege, its frontiers threatened by the rampaging armies of Attila the Hun. No wonder our politicians feel that they have to be tough about it.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/mungo-tough-stance-on-boat-people-borders-on-the-ridiculous/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Meet Kevin Rudd&#8217;s &#8220;scum of the earth&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/meet-kevin-rudds-scum-of-the-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/meet-kevin-rudds-scum-of-the-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Gosford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/meet-kevin-rudds-scum-of-the-earth/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The two men charged with bringing a boatload of Afghani asylum seekers into Australian waters appeared before the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory last week. Are these the people really "scum of the Earth"? ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/meet-kevin-rudds-scum-of-the-earth/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Enough of the hysteria &#8230; refugees are good for us</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/enough-of-the-hysteria-refugees-are-good-for-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/enough-of-the-hysteria-refugees-are-good-for-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labour market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/enough-of-the-hysteria-refugees-are-good-for-us/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Accepting more refugees and boat people into the country is one of the greatest contributions Australia can make to improving the world around us and enhancing our own living standards, writes <b>Sinclair Davidson</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/enough-of-the-hysteria-refugees-are-good-for-us/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd looks like a man who isn’t confident of his own policy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/rudd-looks-like-a-man-who-isn%e2%80%99t-confident-of-his-own-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/rudd-looks-like-a-man-who-isn%e2%80%99t-confident-of-his-own-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceanic viking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There’s no domestic policy reason why the refuseniks aboard the Oceanic Viking should not be taken to Christmas Island and processed like other boat arrivals.

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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Politicians try to patch up a leaky boat of their own making</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/29/rundle-politicians-try-to-patch-up-a-leaky-boat-of-their-own-making/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/29/rundle-politicians-try-to-patch-up-a-leaky-boat-of-their-own-making/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The government's current problems with the <em>Oceanic Viking</em> stem entirely from its being too-clever-by-half – it's of a piece with Ruddism, the idea that a series of brilliant technical decisions can serve as policy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australia takes its pick of the refugee litter</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/crikey-says-117/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/crikey-says-117/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refugee Convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Humanitarian migration allows Australia to siphon off the best-educated and most-talented citizens of embattled countries, while poorer refugees remain trapped in camps and on leaky boats.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Question Time fun: See Kevin run. See Kevin hide.</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/question-time-fun-see-kevin-run-see-kevin-hide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/question-time-fun-see-kevin-run-see-kevin-hide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceanic viking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Ruddock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[question time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudd government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The pursuit of the Prime Minister over the Oceanic Viking made, <em>inter alia</em>, for a rather more interesting Question Time yesterday than we’ve had in some months.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>What is the fuss over former LTTE members in Australia?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/what-is-the-fuss-over-former-ltte-members-in-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/what-is-the-fuss-over-former-ltte-members-in-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rohan Gunaratna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil Tigers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilson Tuckey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Memo to Wilson Tuckey: There are already former members of the Tamil Tigers living in Australia -- mostly professional people, raising successful children, writes <b>Bruce Haigh</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The language of immigration: a global wrap</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/the-language-of-immigration-a-global-wrap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/the-language-of-immigration-a-global-wrap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Bartlett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A look at some of the political rhetoric being used in other countries on immigration and illegal arrivals. Is Wilson Tuckey out on the fringe, or singing the same tune as the rest of the world?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Boat people have had the Rudd government lost for words</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/boat-people-have-had-the-rudd-government-lost-for-words/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/boat-people-have-had-the-rudd-government-lost-for-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Kerr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Shanahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Government is clearly rattled. Oddly, though, it hasn’t been rattled by the Coalition, which has its own problems on asylum seekers. It seems more scared by what might happen on the issue rather than what has happened.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The issue is refugees, not boats</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/the-big-issue-is-how-many-refugees-we-accept-not-boats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/the-big-issue-is-how-many-refugees-we-accept-not-boats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the Left really wants to re-fight and win the asylum seeker issue, they’ll leave the ranting and rhetoric to reactionaries and stop being so easily goaded into elevating the issue into a test of the national character

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		<slash:comments>61</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australia bends over for the ‘Indonesia Solution’</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/21/australia-bends-over-for-the-%e2%80%98indonesia-solution%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/21/australia-bends-over-for-the-%e2%80%98indonesia-solution%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The motivating factor for the Indonesia Solution is not the government’s supposed humanitarian concerns, but the "dog-whistle politics" of racism in the immigration debate, writes <b>Damien Kingsbury</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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