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		<title>Are the true libs returning home at last?</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/welcome-return-of-the-prodigal-true-liberal/story-e6frg6zo-1225912533273</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/welcome-return-of-the-prodigal-true-liberal/story-e6frg6zo-1225912533273#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term "liberal" has changed over time and continues to be widely contested. Nowadays true liberals - who endorse more freedom and lower taxes - may be returning to the fray, writes <b>John Dawson</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>The non-liberal Liberal party: isn&#8217;t it ironic?</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/how-we-like-our-irony-served-down-under-well-done-20100517-v9hc.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/politics/how-we-like-our-irony-served-down-under-well-done-20100517-v9hc.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 22:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a rich world of irony in Australia's political world, from the Labor Party who tries to end union power to a conservative party called the Liberals. <b>Bill Collopy</b> investigates our political language.]]></description>
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		<title>Berg: Australian politics is drifting with no ideological anchor</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/follow-the-leader-20100320-qn84.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/follow-the-leader-20100320-qn84.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia isn't deeply divided along ideological lines -- unlike the US -- and our politics is worse off without it. Without a strong party ideology, how can policies be written? asks <b>Chris Berg</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>No party lasts forever: split happens</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/27/no-party-lasts-forever-split-happens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/27/no-party-lasts-forever-split-happens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australian Greens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is no socially and economically liberal political force in Australia like the Free Democrats in Germany or Liberal Democrats in the UK. But with the Liberal Party’s fault lines widening this week, is now the time for such a party to emerge?]]></description>
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		<title>Throwing Australian liberalism a lifeline</title>
		<link>http://andrewcarr.org/?p=1200</link>
		<comments>http://andrewcarr.org/?p=1200#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberalism in Australia stagnated under the Howard government, becoming a defender of the status-quo with a stance indistinguishable from conservatism, says <b>Andrew Carr</b>. Embracing a modern liberal revival could help the Libs reach the ever-elusive Gen-Y demographic.]]></description>
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		<title>Kerr: The death of the Democrats and the small-l liberal</title>
		<link>http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/houserules/index.php/theaustralian/comments/democrats_dead_official/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/houserules/index.php/theaustralian/comments/democrats_dead_official/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Winderlich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last Australian Democrat MP has jumped ship, rendering the party officially dead, says <b>Christian Kerr</b>. But what about the party's ideals? Is this also the end of small-l liberalism in Australian politics?]]></description>
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		<title>What a liberal Bill of Rights could look like</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/28/some-thoughts-for-a-more-liberal-bill-of-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/28/some-thoughts-for-a-more-liberal-bill-of-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let's call a spade a spade: the debate over Australia's Bill of Rights is really a debate on how government power should be limited, says <b>Timothy Brown</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Where are all the leftie journos?</title>
		<link>http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/small-l-liberal-not-left</link>
		<comments>http://newmatilda.com/2009/08/24/small-l-liberal-not-left#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone loves to trash the media as being full of left leaning journalists, but it's the conservative right wing commentators that get more publicity. Small 'l' liberal is not the same as left wing, writes <b>Lindsay Foyle</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fox News: the new liberals?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/21/fox-news-the-new-liberals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/21/fox-news-the-new-liberals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=81115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately <em>Fox News</em> have been complaining about the president, defending protesters and Damning The Man. Are they, gasp, the new liberals? ]]></description>
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		<title>Abbott no fan of change, just marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25942952-7583,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25942952-7583,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amartya Sen]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=80428</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott's conservative manifesto <em>Battlelines</em> fails to address a key issue -- that institutions <em>need</em> to change with society. Change isn't always a bad thing, writes <b>David Hetherington</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Atticus Finch: a fictional portrayal of real life racist failings</title>
		<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/10/090810fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all</link>
		<comments>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/10/090810fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[To Kill a Mockingbird]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=79497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>To Kill a Mockingbird's</em> Atticus Finch was no civil rights activist. Instead he represents the real life double standard in Southern liberalism, swapping one prejudice for another, writes <b>Malcolm Gladwell</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Janet, conservatism has killed this government</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/07/janet-conservatism-has-killed-this-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/07/janet-conservatism-has-killed-this-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authoritarianism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janet Albrechtsen is young, bright – and provides the perfect demonstration of exactly how John Howard has got himself into his poll pickle. John Howard is in the state he is in because he has favoured conservatism over liberalism.]]></description>
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