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		<title>Illiterate, but formal: small miracle of democracy blooms in FNQ</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/illiterate-but-formal-a-small-miracle-of-democracy-blooms-in-fnq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cape York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electoral commission queensland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Queensland's election, somehow polling booths that should represent some of the country's least literate voters returned informal vote numbers that were among the country's lowest. What's going on?]]></description>
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		<title>Cocos Islands: the view from Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["First language first" is a fundamental premise of bilingual education, but not in the Cocos Islands, where children are being punished for speaking their native Cocos Malay, writes <b>Pauline Bunce</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>NT classrooms limit indigenous languages to 1 hour a day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NT Minister for Education, Marion Scrymgour, recently announced that indigenous languages can not be used in NT classrooms, except for one hour a day in the afternoons, writes <b>Samanti de Silva</b>.]]></description>
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