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	<title>Crikey &#187; interest rate rises</title>
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		<title>Interest rate horse puns: their cups runneth over</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/interest-rate-horse-puns-their-cups-runneth-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/interest-rate-horse-puns-their-cups-runneth-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[headlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lazy journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne cup]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[subeditors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The priceless coincidence of two major news events occurring within an hour of each other yesterday had the nation's top journalists jockeying relentlessly in their favourite pursuit: tenuously-linked punnage.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask the economists: tomorrow&#8217;s RBA announcement</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/ask-the-economists-tomorrows-rba-announcement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/ask-the-economists-tomorrows-rba-announcement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic stimulus package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank of australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We asked the economists for their punt on the RBA's interest rate announcement tomorrow, just ahead of the race that stops a nation. They say that the numbers will just keep going up...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The RBA charm offensive</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/rba-starts-media-blitz-on-rate-rises/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/rba-starts-media-blitz-on-rate-rises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Stevens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RBA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Reserve Bank is about to embark again on a major selling program as inflation and interest rates resume their historic relationship in the minds and forecasts of the central bank.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/rba-starts-media-blitz-on-rate-rises/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dangerous ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-97/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-97/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Festival of Dangerous Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keysar Trad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NRL]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Crikey</em> readers weigh in on Guy Rundle's <em>Festival of Really Dangerous Ideas</em>,  the Indian students report and the possibility of John Howard heading up the NRL commission.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-97/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>No government this morning</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudd government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subeditors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Democrats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With all the media focus on the Opposition at the moment, the government are staying very very quiet. Plus, the sneaking humorous world of sub editors.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stimulus isn&#8217;t money for nothing. Time to wind it back</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/stimulus-isnt-money-for-nothing-time-to-wind-it-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/stimulus-isnt-money-for-nothing-time-to-wind-it-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Schwab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic stimulus package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank of australia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/stimulus-isnt-money-for-nothing-time-to-wind-it-back/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Calls are mounting for the Federal Government to reduce its wide-ranging fiscal stimulus package as economists continue to upgrade the prospects for the Australian economy.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/stimulus-isnt-money-for-nothing-time-to-wind-it-back/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Spiralling dollar spells current account chaos</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/spiralling-dollar-spells-current-account-chaos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/spiralling-dollar-spells-current-account-chaos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian dollar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US dollar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Standby for a good, old fashioned current account scare, as the Australian dollar continues to rise as it did last night in the wake of the Reserve Bank rate rise.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/spiralling-dollar-spells-current-account-chaos/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rates up, more to come</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/rates-up-more-to-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/rates-up-more-to-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank of australia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=91316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rate rises have begun, with RBA today lifting its cash rate 0.25% up to 3.25%. Is the Australian economy officially back on track?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/rates-up-more-to-come/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crikey Says</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/11/crikey-says-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/11/crikey-says-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first home owners grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home buyers grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[japanese whaling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's the word from the Golf Club (a genuine cross-section of voters) about the "important" things making news this week. 

]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/11/crikey-says-7/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Confidence slumps, housing hits brick bottom</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/08/confidence-slumps-housing-hits-brick-bottom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/08/confidence-slumps-housing-hits-brick-bottom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brickmaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brickworks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horsley park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poor weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With housing mortgages at an 11 year high, home lending running at a 9% low and the worst single month for building approvals, you would have though the media would have been all over the decision by Brickworks Ltd yesterday, to cut production in NSW by 100 million bricks a year, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/08/confidence-slumps-housing-hits-brick-bottom/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why a rate rise will only take house prices higher</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/05/why-a-rate-rise-will-only-take-house-prices-higher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/05/why-a-rate-rise-will-only-take-house-prices-higher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian bureau of statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank lenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit crunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Interest rate rises are supposed to slow the economy ... how then do we explain the surge in house prices in 2007, asks <b> Glen Dyer</b>?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/05/why-a-rate-rise-will-only-take-house-prices-higher/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will Wayne Swan protect the world’s most expensive banking system?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/27/will-wayne-swan-protect-the-worlds-most-expensive-banking-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/27/will-wayne-swan-protect-the-worlds-most-expensive-banking-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commonwealth Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Keating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queensland ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New Treasurer Wayne Swan was very keen not to frighten the banking horses during the election campaign, when his distanced himself from Peter Costello’s jawboning on interest rate rises, writes Stephen Mayne.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/27/will-wayne-swan-protect-the-worlds-most-expensive-banking-system/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Newspoll brings out another Shanahan spin masterclass</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/12/newspoll-brings-out-another-shanahan-spin-masterclass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/12/newspoll-brings-out-another-shanahan-spin-masterclass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[milne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preferably]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shanahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sisyphean task]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All lovers of quality political spin should go out right now and buy, or preferably steal, today's edition of <i>The Australian</i>. It's a keeper, writes David MacCormack.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/12/newspoll-brings-out-another-shanahan-spin-masterclass/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>MacCormack: John Howard can&#8217;t help himself, can he?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/09/maccormack-john-howard-cant-help-himself-can-he/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/09/maccormack-john-howard-cant-help-himself-can-he/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awkward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dictionary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Howard was smart to say sorry on Wednesday. It may not have gained him a single extra vote, but it suggested he was aware of having dudded Australians in 2004. But in offering one of his trademark dips into the dictionary, he undid all that in an instant, David MacCormack.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/09/maccormack-john-howard-cant-help-himself-can-he/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comitatus: Polling the economy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/09/comitatus-polling-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/09/comitatus-polling-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abstract notion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rise]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[talking heads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The key to understanding the way “the economy” seems to be working as an issue in this election is to not to fall into the trap of seeing it as a single holistic <i>thing</i>, writes Possum Comitatus.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/09/comitatus-polling-the-economy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Andrew Murray: They give fiscal conservatives a bad name</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/08/andrew-murray-they-give-fiscal-conservatives-a-bad-name/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/08/andrew-murray-they-give-fiscal-conservatives-a-bad-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[higher finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We can afford some tax cuts and benefits increases without fearing inflation - but it is the sheer and growing scale and quantum of Liberal/Labor promises that is dangerous and irresponsible, writes Democrats Senator Andrew Murray.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/08/andrew-murray-they-give-fiscal-conservatives-a-bad-name/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>MacCormack: Howard embraces &#8220;faith-based reality&#8221; on interest rates</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/08/maccormack-howard-embraces-faith-based-reality-on-interest-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/08/maccormack-howard-embraces-faith-based-reality-on-interest-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bob shanks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush Administration's practice of ignoring what's happening on Planet Earth in favour of a more convenient narrative is driving the Government's handling of interest rate rises, writes David MacCormack.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/08/maccormack-howard-embraces-faith-based-reality-on-interest-rates/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Woolies continues to ride the retail boom</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/23/woolies-continues-to-ride-the-retail-boom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/23/woolies-continues-to-ride-the-retail-boom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first quarter sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petrol prices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A cautious first quarter sales report from the country's biggest retailer, Woolworths but one that makes clear the retail boom we've been experiencing since the start of the year is alive and well and high petrol prices are no longer bugbear; while inflation seems to be easing for the retail giant, writes Glenn Dyer.]]></description>
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		<title>Comitatus: Howard&#8217;s Catch 22</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/17/comitatus-howards-catch-22/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great problem for political parties that find themselves in government is how to reconcile the interests of their core seats that make up the organisational lifeblood of the party, with their non-core seats that provide the governing majority. Possum Comitatus writes. ]]></description>
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		<title>Which comes first: the election or the rates rise?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/14/which-comes-first-the-election-or-the-rates-rise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/14/which-comes-first-the-election-or-the-rates-rise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rise]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Market economists expect another rates rise before the end of the year. The main question is when. Before, after or during the election campaign?]]></description>
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		<title>The Economy: Interest rates on hold</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/04/the-economy-interest-rates-on-hold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/04/the-economy-interest-rates-on-hold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[interest rate changes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rises]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[time in australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday there was another weak retail sales outcome, and this will have given the RBA board support for its fence sitting exercise on interest rates. ]]></description>
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