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	<title>Crikey &#187; infrastructure</title>
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		<title>Abbott makes Irish joke of Liberals&#8217; economic cred</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/27/abbott-makes-irish-joke-of-liberals-economic-credentials/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/27/abbott-makes-irish-joke-of-liberals-economic-credentials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Briggs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle class welfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter reith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Ciobo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=231622</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott's incapacity to handle the basics of economic policy is hurting his party.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>82</slash:comments>
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		<title>Life on the railroad: caught between state screw-ups and federal follies</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/09/life-on-the-railroad-caught-between-state-screw-ups-and-federal-follies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/09/life-on-the-railroad-caught-between-state-screw-ups-and-federal-follies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regional Rail Link]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Baillieu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terry Mulder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victorian government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=202234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than six months after the ill-fated Brumby government rattled dozens of Footscray residents and business-owners by forgetting to tell them about a plan to bulldoze their properties to make way for the new Regional Rail Link, homeowners here are facing more uncertainty. Local resident <b>Pat McGrath</b> explains.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why you won&#8217;t hear calls for a CBA of the post-flood reconstruction</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/24/why-you-wont-hear-calls-for-a-cba-of-the-post-flood-reconstruction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/24/why-you-wont-hear-calls-for-a-cba-of-the-post-flood-reconstruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost benefit analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QLD floods]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=198691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Post-disaster reconstruction illuminates the irrational, but humane, approach we sometimes adopt to infrastructure provision.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;Critical infrastructure&#8217; = hysterical reaction</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/07/critical-infrastructure-hysterical-reaction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/07/critical-infrastructure-hysterical-reaction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canberra cables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=191201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The "critical infrastructure" apparently leaked by WikiLeaks is a bureaucratic exercise that tells us nothing. Why is the press overreacting?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/07/critical-infrastructure-hysterical-reaction/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Coalition&#8217;s infrastructure policy: good if you&#8217;re paranoid about debt</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/18/coalitions-infrastructure-policy-good-if-youre-paranoid-about-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/18/coalitions-infrastructure-policy-good-if-youre-paranoid-about-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Keane on the Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=165393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Coalition finally offers some sensible policy on infrastructure, but it's on the wrong track in a few areas.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gillard&#8217;s rail pledge ends decades of disgraceful mismanagement</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/11/gillards-rail-pledge-ends-decades-of-disgraceful-mismanagement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/11/gillards-rail-pledge-ends-decades-of-disgraceful-mismanagement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristina Keneally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael costa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public transport]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=163534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NSW, no matter what the government, cannot be trusted with infrastructure dollars, as the mal-administration of transport projects is hard-wired into the state’s public service.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Forget high-speed rail &#8212; there are plenty of better investments to be made in rail</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/05/forget-high-speed-rail-there-are-plenty-of-better-investments-to-be-made-in-rail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/05/forget-high-speed-rail-there-are-plenty-of-better-investments-to-be-made-in-rail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Keane on the Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-speed rail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=161814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Labor has managed to produce a high speed rail policy twice as bad as the Greens'. And it badly misses the point about where we should be investing in rail.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Populate or perish?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/30/what-does-population-growth-mean-for-environmental-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/30/what-does-population-growth-mean-for-environmental-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[population growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=127138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What does population growth mean for environmental policy? asks the Australian Conservation Foundation's <b>Charles Berger</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/30/what-does-population-growth-mean-for-environmental-policy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>57</slash:comments>
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		<title>Housing &#8212; the real arena for federal takeover</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/15/housing-the-real-arena-for-federal-takeover/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/15/housing-the-real-arena-for-federal-takeover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=123042</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While health gets all the attention, housing policy is a critical Commonwealth-state issue that we must get right in the face of a growing population.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/15/housing-the-real-arena-for-federal-takeover/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sydney, a giant dementia farm in the making, cans its new Metro</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/20/sydney-a-giant-dementia-farm-in-the-making-cans-its-new-metro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/20/sydney-a-giant-dementia-farm-in-the-making-cans-its-new-metro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney Airport]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=110865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another Sydney transport infrastructure project -- $5.3 billion underground CBD Metro -- is about to be snuffed. It seems one of the few growth industries in Sydney is proposing and cancelling public transport projects. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Get off the bloody road: the roads aren&#8217;t safe for bikes</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/drive/motor-news/cyclists-do-not-have-the-same-rights-as-motorists-on-roads-20091111-i8st.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/drive/motor-news/cyclists-do-not-have-the-same-rights-as-motorists-on-roads-20091111-i8st.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bike riding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bikes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Scully]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyclists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[town planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transport]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No one would suggest it is safe for pedestrians to be on the roadway, so why should it be any different if a pedestrian gets on a bike? Ex NSW Roads Minister <b>Carl Scully</b> says cyclists should get off the road.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A look behind the detour of Transurban</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/a-look-behind-the-detour-of-transurban/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/a-look-behind-the-detour-of-transurban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executive salaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transurban]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/a-look-behind-the-detour-of-transurban/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Transurban is destined to join the worldwide queue of over-valued toll roads mired in debt and based on misleading financial models, writes <b>John Goldberg</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kelly: Building the foundation of a viable nation</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26268751-7583,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26268751-7583,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school stimulus fund]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=95628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Infrastructure shouldn't be a vote grabbing propaganda exercise, particularly since tough decisions need to be made to balance population growth. Rudd needs to recognised that infrastructure is more about economic reform than nation building, writes <b>Paul Kelly</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>My shovel&#8217;s better than yours: Rudd v Howard on infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/my-shovels-better-than-yours-rudd-v-howard-on-infrastructure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/my-shovels-better-than-yours-rudd-v-howard-on-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Truss]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/my-shovels-better-than-yours-rudd-v-howard-on-infrastructure/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Federal politicians are falling over themselves to claim credit for spending taxpayer's money on infrastructure, writes <b>Alan Moran</b>. Too bad public projects are never judged with the same rigor as private projects.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>We don&#8217;t need new fast trains, Albo, we need new cities</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/rundle-we-dont-need-new-fast-trains-albo-we-need-new-cities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/rundle-we-dont-need-new-fast-trains-albo-we-need-new-cities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lateline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melbourne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban planning]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/rundle-we-dont-need-new-fast-trains-albo-we-need-new-cities/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to infrastructure, what we need first and foremost are not new rail lines. Not even fast rail lines. What we need are new cities.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stutchbury: Stuff the GFC, pay attention to China</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26259190-5017771,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26259190-5017771,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=95157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Will a lack of adequate infrastructure slow Australia's economic growth? Australia needs to embark on a new wave of supply-side reform, one that actually <em>includes</em> cost-benefit analysis, writes <b>Michael Stutchbury</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Over-crowded and under-planned: Australian cities in crisis</title>
		<link>http://inside.org.au/trouble-in-the-city/</link>
		<comments>http://inside.org.au/trouble-in-the-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[urban planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban sprawl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=94954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don't believe state governments' glossy planning documents promising of “strong communities” and “smart growth”, says <b>Peter Spearritt</b>: Australia's cities are a mess of urban sprawl, inadequate transport, congested roads, dwindling water supplies and energy-guzzling buildings.]]></description>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t have to be a roads scholar to work out congestion</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/20/you-dont-have-to-be-a-roads-scholar-to-work-out-congestion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/20/you-dont-have-to-be-a-roads-scholar-to-work-out-congestion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian motorists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Henry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traffic congestion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Urban road transport is a vast public policy failure by governments that costs us billions of dollars a year, but it will go on being tolerated, chiefly because voters won’t accept the solution.

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		<title>Rudd: Howard wasted his boom time wealth</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/arguments-grounded-in-fact-always-win-the-day-20090914-fmfo.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/arguments-grounded-in-fact-always-win-the-day-20090914-fmfo.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[op-eds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=86214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In <b>PM Kevin Rudd's</b> latest op-ed, he reaffirms his idea that the Howard Government "squandered" their chance to reform, but assures us his government won't do the same.]]></description>
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		<title>Go Betweens bridge push enters final days</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/11/go-betweens-bridge-push-enters-final-days/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/11/go-betweens-bridge-push-enters-final-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hale Street Link Bridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Go-Betweens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=85909</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Indie music fans across the country are voting in force to have a Brisbane's new Hale Street Link Bridge named after Australian band The Go-Betweens.]]></description>
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		<title>Criticism for school signs plan</title>
		<link>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/28/2669401.htm?section=australia</link>
		<comments>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/28/2669401.htm?section=australia#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Pyne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic stimulus package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school stimulus fund]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=82613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The government is extracting every political mileage out of their school infrastructure program possible, with schools forced to place government advertising signs outside new buildings until 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>Infrastructure funding plight continues</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/infrastructure-funding-plight-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/infrastructure-funding-plight-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 03:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09 analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Building Australia Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nation building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=58000</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What Australia got from the federal budget is a list of projects, not a solution to our infrastructure crisis, writes <b>Phillip O'Neill</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>NT budget: deficit delivers overdue infrastructure spending</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25436189-5006790,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25436189-5006790,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 22:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget expenditure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT Budget]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=55704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The $4.472 billion NT budget will power long needed infrastructure, hospital health services and fund the construction of a new city... called Weddell.]]></description>
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		<title>Budget countdown: Auslink infrastructure planning fail</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/24/budget-countdown-auslink-infrastructure-planning-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/24/budget-countdown-auslink-infrastructure-planning-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auslink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Countdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transport]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=53135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Auslink: frequently no appraisal, no cooperation and no planning, and no one ever evaluated anything.]]></description>
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		<title>Budget countdown: It&#8217;s time to introduce tolls on our roads</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/21/budget-countdown-its-time-to-introduce-tolls-on-our-roads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/21/budget-countdown-its-time-to-introduce-tolls-on-our-roads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Countdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road tolls]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=52411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a way to extend existing infrastructure funding further without slicing or delaying projects: it's time to introduce tolls.]]></description>
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