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	<title>Crikey &#187; John Howard</title>
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		<title>Cricket riots, lost trousers and objects thrown: leaders tested</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/05/10/cricket-riots-lost-trousers-and-objects-thrown-leaders-tested/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/05/10/cricket-riots-lost-trousers-and-objects-thrown-leaders-tested/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 03:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gough Whitlam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[political stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prime minister julia gillard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julia Gillard had a sandwich thrown at her this week, delighting the media. Sydney-based freelance writer <b>Dylan Barber</b> brings you some of the best gaffes, errors and fumblings from leaders in years gone by.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>WorkChoices it ain&#8217;t, but Abbott&#8217;s IR plan is partly feral</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/05/10/abbott-unveils-minimalist-ir-policy-but-with-some-traps-for-unions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/05/10/abbott-unveils-minimalist-ir-policy-but-with-some-traps-for-unions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 01:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Coalition has finally unveiled its IR policy, a minimalist document that is not without its concerns for trade unions -- and anyone walking past a building site.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crikey Clarifier: the process of appointing a new GG</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/29/crikey-clarifier-the-process-of-appointing-a-new-gg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/29/crikey-clarifier-the-process-of-appointing-a-new-gg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crikey Clarifier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angus houston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crikey clarifier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governor general]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Cosgrove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quentin bryce]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=366592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia's next governor-general could be Peter Cosgrove or Angus Houston ... but it's not likely to be a radical or stirrer. With debate beginning in earnest, governance expert <b>Stephen Bartos</b> explains the process.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Nick Cater&#8217;s book gets wrong about Australia (basically everything)</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/23/what-nick-caters-book-gets-wrong-about-australia-basically-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/23/what-nick-caters-book-gets-wrong-about-australia-basically-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Cater]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=365460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia is a culture of collectivism, not individualism, and no matter what Nick Cater says in his new book, we will never be American go-getters.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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		<title>Howard, through the rose-coloured glasses of nostalgia</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/23/howard-through-the-rose-coloured-glasses-of-nostalgia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/23/howard-through-the-rose-coloured-glasses-of-nostalgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comments & corrections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uluru]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=365316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Crikey</em> readers talk the real cost of nuclear power, the legacy of John Howard and the reality of renaming airports.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: voters on Iraq, gay marriage and Gonski</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/22/essential-voters-on-iraq-gay-marriage-and-gonski/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/22/essential-voters-on-iraq-gay-marriage-and-gonski/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gonski Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasion of iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=365150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters believe our participation in the Iraq War a decade ago was a mistake, today's Essential Report shows.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Framing forestry and Howard&#8217;s WMD claims</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/12/framing-forestry-and-howards-wmd-claims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/12/framing-forestry-and-howards-wmd-claims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comments & corrections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tasmanian forests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=362867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Crikey</em> readers have their say on the biggest issues of the day.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/12/tips-and-rumours-857/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/12/tips-and-rumours-857/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips and rumours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[s-xism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simon sheikh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Australian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Greens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=362861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Qantas ladies, please defer to a bloke ... <em>Crikey's</em> list of political turncoats ... no heteros-xuality please, we're Green ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Howard: another old white man claiming credit for the Arab Spring</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/11/howard-another-old-white-man-claiming-credit-for-the-arab-spring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/11/howard-another-old-white-man-claiming-credit-for-the-arab-spring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mamdouh Habib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weapons of mass destruction in iraq]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=362473</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Howard's effort to claim credit for the Arab Spring is grubby and hypocritical -- he is using the brave sacrifice of thousands of Arab men and women to justify an illegal war.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>Howard not giving ground on Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/11/howard-not-giving-ground-on-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/11/howard-not-giving-ground-on-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comments & corrections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Ltd]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=362413</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Crikey</em> readers talk News Ltd's new subbing platform, Margaret Thatcher's economic legacy and John Howard's Iraq speech.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>When John Howard was asked why he went to war on false premise</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/10/when-john-howard-was-asked-why-he-went-to-war-on-false-premise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/10/when-john-howard-was-asked-why-he-went-to-war-on-false-premise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Saville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq invasion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[weapons of mass destruction in iraq]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=362224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As protesters gathered outside, John Howard spoke in Sydney last night on the decision to go to war on Iraq. Here's what happened when he was asked why he made that decision without proof, and in defiance of the UN Security Council.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>John Howard&#8217;s still lying about Iraq invasion</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/10/rundle-john-howards-still-lying-about-iraq-invasion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/10/rundle-john-howards-still-lying-about-iraq-invasion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saddam hussein]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=362113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Howard is still defending the war in Iraq, and his speech to to the Lowy Institute is full of lies. Will nobody pull him up on the continuing falsehoods?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Baroness dies, but the fiction of Thatcherism lives on</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/09/rundle-a-baroness-dies-the-fiction-of-thatcherism-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/09/rundle-a-baroness-dies-the-fiction-of-thatcherism-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[british economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deregulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=361710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher is dead. Forget the the fiction that Thatcherism was the only way to modernise a Western economy -- it was a second-rate, shoddy approach that left British neighbourhoods in ruins.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Murdoch, Abbott, Rinehart, Bolt: Tory-fest in Melbourne tonight</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/04/murdoch-abbott-rinehart-bolt-tory-fest-in-melbourne-tonight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/04/04/murdoch-abbott-rinehart-bolt-tory-fest-in-melbourne-tonight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BUSINESS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MEDIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gina Rinehart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ipa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=360832</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The leading lights of Australia's Right-leaning power clique are converging on Melbourne for a gala dinner tonight: from Rupert Murdoch to Andrew Bolt and, of course, Tony Abbott. Read about the big do here.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>The 15 shades of Gary Gray &#8212; Labor on the edge of the abyss</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/28/the-15-shades-of-gary-gray-labor-on-the-edge-of-the-abyss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/28/the-15-shades-of-gary-gray-labor-on-the-edge-of-the-abyss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Gray]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Labor leadership spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simon crean]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=359465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What's wrong with Labor? Well, everything ... but here are at least 15 of the reasons. Let's start with Gary Gray.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>60</slash:comments>
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		<title>Labor leadership &#8212; it&#8217;s not just about September 14</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/12/labor-leadership-its-not-just-about-september-14/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/12/labor-leadership-its-not-just-about-september-14/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2013 federal election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Peacock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon Price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[double dissolution]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=355050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Labor's leadership troubles aren't just about the coming election but the subsequent election -- and Kevin Rudd might have his eye much farther down the track.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/12/labor-leadership-its-not-just-about-september-14/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>63</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does the Labor narrative narrative stand up?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/22/does-the-labor-narrative-narrative-stand-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/22/does-the-labor-narrative-narrative-stand-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Hawke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narrative]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=350733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We all complain Labor lacks a narrative. But what if positive narratives are now impossible to effectively communicate? Look overseas and it may well be the case.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/22/does-the-labor-narrative-narrative-stand-up/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>76</slash:comments>
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		<title>Myth of Coalition govts: Howard the biggest spender of all</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/13/myth-of-coalition-govts-howard-the-biggest-spender-of-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/13/myth-of-coalition-govts-howard-the-biggest-spender-of-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal caution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public perceptions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=348484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's a perception the Coalition are better at cutting spending than Labor, but the Rudd and Gillard governments have cut spending significantly. John Howard was the big spender, says <b>Stephen Koukoulas</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/13/myth-of-coalition-govts-howard-the-biggest-spender-of-all/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Howard, Honan and myth of parliamentary accountability</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/27/keane-howard-honan-and-myth-of-parliamentary-accountability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/27/keane-howard-honan-and-myth-of-parliamentary-accountability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AWU scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethanol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=333920</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Julia Gillard is now under fire for taking questions on the AWU issue at a press conference -- apparently she's avoiding Parliament. That argument is nonsense: John Howard misled Parliament and got away with it.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/27/keane-howard-honan-and-myth-of-parliamentary-accountability/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jane Caro: why Margie Abbott is bloody revolutionary</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/10/08/jane-caro-why-margie-abbott-is-bloody-revolutionary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/10/08/jane-caro-why-margie-abbott-is-bloody-revolutionary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 02:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Caro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margie Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=320940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Margie and Tony Abbott are more than welcome to join the ranks of the feminists. And the fact that they want to do so speaks volumes for the comeback of a movement written off by John Howard.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/10/08/jane-caro-why-margie-abbott-is-bloody-revolutionary/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>54</slash:comments>
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		<title>The history curriculum debate: back to the Howard future?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/10/01/the-history-curriculum-debate-back-to-the-howard-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/10/01/the-history-curriculum-debate-back-to-the-howard-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Ashenden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=319241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Howard has reignited the history wars with his intervention last week into school curriculum. It's the ages-old debate that just doesn't ever go away.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/10/01/the-history-curriculum-debate-back-to-the-howard-future/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gillard mustn&#8217;t bruise a budget surplus</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/09/18/gillard-mustnt-bruise-a-budget-surplus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/09/18/gillard-mustnt-bruise-a-budget-surplus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2013 federal election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget surplus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=316624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of favourable polls, Labor may be tempted to soften its budget stance. This would be a mistake, says <b>Stephen Koukoulas</b> of <a href="http://www.businessspectator.com.au" target="_blank"><em>Business Spectator</em></a>, not least because of the flow-on effect of higher interest rates.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/09/18/gillard-mustnt-bruise-a-budget-surplus/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>When it comes to WorkChoices, Abbott can&#8217;t take a trick</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/08/28/when-it-comes-to-workchoices-abbott-cant-take-a-trick/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/08/28/when-it-comes-to-workchoices-abbott-cant-take-a-trick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=312131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott can't turn a trick on IR -- he's in trouble no matter what he says, and plenty of it is friendly fire.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/08/28/when-it-comes-to-workchoices-abbott-cant-take-a-trick/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>136</slash:comments>
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		<title>The benefits of diversity, cultural and intellectual</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/06/28/the-benefits-of-diversity-cultural-and-intellectual/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/06/28/the-benefits-of-diversity-cultural-and-intellectual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gillard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[groupthink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsay Tanner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thinktanks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=299582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Gillard government being consistently outgunned and just plain monstered in public debate, it has more cause than ever to regret the departure of former finance minister Lindsay Tanner.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/06/28/the-benefits-of-diversity-cultural-and-intellectual/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>My blood is boiling with disappointment</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/31/my-blood-is-boiling-with-disappointment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/31/my-blood-is-boiling-with-disappointment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 03:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comments & corrections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australians Greens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=292969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Crikey readers have their say.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/31/my-blood-is-boiling-with-disappointment/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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