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	<title>Crikey &#187; keating government</title>
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		<title>Keeping Labor&#8217;s 12% &#8212; why not the Howard-Costello approach?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/07/keeping-labors-12-why-not-the-howard-costello-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/07/keeping-labors-12-why-not-the-howard-costello-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don't worry too much about the Coalition's promise to fund the compulsory super increase - it's dealt with this problem before.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Maley: waging a battle against stalling productivity</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/09/maley-waging-a-battle-against-stalling-productivity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/09/maley-waging-a-battle-against-stalling-productivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[commodity prices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hawke government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s no doubt that the core reason that our productivity is ebbing is that we’ve lost the zeal for microeconomic reforms, writes <b>Karen Maley</b> of <a href="http://www.businessspectator.com.au" target="_blank"><em>Business Spectator</em></a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Budget breakdown: why Gillard&#8217;s Labor has lost its heritage</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/17/budget-breakdown-why-gillards-labor-has-lost-its-heritage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/17/budget-breakdown-why-gillards-labor-has-lost-its-heritage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 02:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Breakdown: CPD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hawke government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Curtin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does anything distinctively Labor remain in the Gillard government, asks <b>John Quiggin</b>, an economist from the University of Queensland?]]></description>
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		<title>C&#8217;mon, Kev, show some guts: tell us where we&#8217;re weak</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/19/cmon-kev-show-some-guts-tell-us-where-were-weak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/19/cmon-kev-show-some-guts-tell-us-where-were-weak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian education union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hawke government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We need more than just idle <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-growing-challenge/story-e6frg6zo-1225820989207">talk</a> from a Prime Minister and a Treasury that knows what's needed and should have the guts to issue a report pointing out our weak areas and suggesting what needs to be done.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The long, plodding March of Patriots</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/rundles-friday-book-review-the-long-plodding-march-of-patriots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/rundles-friday-book-review-the-long-plodding-march-of-patriots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paul Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The March of Patriots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Guy Rundle</b> reviews Paul Kelly's new book, <em>The March of Patriots</em>: the literary equivalent of cleaning out the garage on a grey Saturday afternoon.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Keating, a rusted-on luvvie, leaves a legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/keating-a-rusted-on-luvvie-leaves-a-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/keating-a-rusted-on-luvvie-leaves-a-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guy Rundle’s <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/essay-the-death-of-tozer-and-keatings-betrayal-of-genius/">recent assault</a> on Paul Keating’s cultural cred was irritating and thrilling by turns, writes arts reporter <b>Stephen Feneley</b> -- it shouldn't be so surprising arts folk have such fond memories of Keating given what came after him. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>The death of Tozer and Keating&#8217;s romancing of genius</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/essay-the-death-of-tozer-and-keatings-betrayal-of-genius/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/essay-the-death-of-tozer-and-keatings-betrayal-of-genius/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geoffrey Tozer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Keating]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The death of pianist Geoffrey Tozer raises questions about Paul Keating and the attitudes about art and civilisation that he projected -- and continues to project -- onto this country.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>Restoring authority to parliament</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/12/restoring-authority-to-parliament/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/12/restoring-authority-to-parliament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contrary views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd wants to make resolutions of the House and ministerial statements fashionable again, but the days of ministers speaking to the people through Parliament are gone forever, writes Rob Chalmers.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where now for Liberal staffers? The mining boom?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/29/where-now-for-liberal-staffers-the-mining-boom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/29/where-now-for-liberal-staffers-the-mining-boom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bureaucracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vilified]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ministerial advisers are well compensated with a respectable termination payment if they have served for a few years or more. And most are generally happy for a decent break after the rigorous pace of government. But it soon dawns on most that their skills are tough to transfer when they wear a Labor or conservative badge. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>When a swing is on &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/25/when-a-swing-is-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/25/when-a-swing-is-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the overall result was about what I expected, the seat-swing make-up wasn’t, writes Peter Brent.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Poll history repeats – but which piece?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/15/poll-history-repeats-but-which-piece/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/15/poll-history-repeats-but-which-piece/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[coalition support]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government will be hoping opinion poll history repeats. But which piece of history? Which previous Newspoll graph can the government take heart from? Peter Brent investigates.]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Rio Tinto to call Australia home</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/28/time-for-rio-tinto-to-call-australia-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/28/time-for-rio-tinto-to-call-australia-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afl president]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mike fitzpatrick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Rio Tinto EGM approved one of three largest cash bids in corporate history -- the $US44 billion Alcan takeover -- but the deal will see the world’s second biggest mining company become even less Australian.]]></description>
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		<title>Mixing the polls: Tuesday edition</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/18/mixing-the-polls-tuesday-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/18/mixing-the-polls-tuesday-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crikey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s poll-mix, of a Morgan, Nielsen and Newspoll over the last fortnight, giving greater weight to the Newspoll because it is most recent (more here on the methodology) shows a 56 to 44 two party preferred in Labor’s favour.]]></description>
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		<title>The 39 (marginal) steps – to government</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/24/the-39-marginal-steps-to-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/24/the-39-marginal-steps-to-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keating government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Liberal Party has doubled the number of seats it is treating as marginal in the face of Labor’s consistent poll leads, according to the <i>Australian</i>. There’s Wentworth. What our the other 39 steps to government? ]]></description>
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		<title>All steady in latest Morgan Poll</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/06/22/all-steady-in-latest-morgan-poll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/06/22/all-steady-in-latest-morgan-poll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[election polls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opinion poll number three for the week is from Gary Morgan, and it confirms the other two. Labor's two-party preferred vote is at 57.5% (Nielsen said 57%, Newspoll 56%); that's a swing of about 10%, down 0.5% from the previous poll. The lead on primary votes is 48-37, compared to Nielsen's 48-39 and Newspoll's 46-39.]]></description>
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