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	<title>Crikey &#187; Michelle Grattan</title>
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		<title>Essential: we trust Negus and Oakes, but who&#8217;s Andrew Bolt?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/05/essential-we-trust-negus-and-oakes-but-whos-andrew-bolt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/05/essential-we-trust-negus-and-oakes-but-whos-andrew-bolt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Whittaker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alan jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Bolt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george negus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Oakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media commentators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tony jones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We trust Laurie Oakes and George Negus to bring us the news. But not Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt, an Essential Research poll found.]]></description>
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		<title>Sideshow Alley: leadership speculation, you&#8217;re over it</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/02/sideshow-alley-leadership-speculation-youre-over-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/02/sideshow-alley-leadership-speculation-youre-over-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fran kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sideshow Alley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And now, to the week that was. And the nominations are ... *opens envelope*...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Behind the scenes: the lowdown from the lock-up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/behind-the-scenes-the-lowdown-from-the-lock-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/10/behind-the-scenes-the-lowdown-from-the-lock-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 09:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Mitchell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Jeffrey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kieran Gilbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Carr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter van Onselen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tim colebatch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There’s no bigger shattering of journalistic hubris than the annual scrum outside the budget lock-up.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>What do the SA/Tas results mean for Brumby and Rudd? Zilch.</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/24/what-do-the-satas-results-mean-for-brumby-and-rudd-zilch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/24/what-do-the-satas-results-mean-for-brumby-and-rudd-zilch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antony Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Shanahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geoff Kitney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lazy journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Australian election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tasmanian election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[victorian election]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=125767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia's anointed political commentariat have been desperate to drain as much analytical mileage from the state election results as possible.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is Australia&#8217;s commentariat just making it up as it goes along?</title>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/15/do-the-polls-support-the-political-narrative-or-how-to-build-a-commentariat-bot/</link>
		<comments>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/15/do-the-polls-support-the-political-narrative-or-how-to-build-a-commentariat-bot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Bahnisch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Shanahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalistic bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lazy journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Colless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political commentators]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Shanahan to Grattan, Australia's pundits have turned into "commentariat-bots", says <b>Mark Bahnisch</b>, constructing a political narrative based on their own random musings instead of hard data.]]></description>
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		<title>Is that all you&#8217;ve got Paul Kelly?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/07/is-that-all-youve-got-paul-kelly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/07/is-that-all-youve-got-paul-kelly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Downer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerard Henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Oakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Australian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The End of Certainty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The March of Patriots]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/07/is-that-all-youve-got-paul-kelly/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Howard didn’t like Costello? They lied about kids overboard? Noel Pearson helping the conservatives? They neglected to check whether the attack on Iraq was legal? Paul Kelly's new book isn't exactly shocking.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The charms of Spring</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/03/first-dog-on-the-moon-393/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/03/first-dog-on-the-moon-393/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Bolt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Pyne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerard Henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Milne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kerry obrien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Oakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leigh Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skippy the bush kangaroo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tony jones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even the media elite are not immune]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Peter Costello Food Pyramid</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/12/first-dog-on-the-moon-199/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/12/first-dog-on-the-moon-199/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Shanahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Milne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[higgins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jeff kennet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[large hadron colider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesser sooty owl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael kroger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robert menzies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: this cartoon may contain traces of Peter Costello...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Federal Budget review with Kevin Rudd&#8217;s cat&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/first-dog-on-the-moon-112/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/first-dog-on-the-moon-112/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget lockup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kevin rudd's cat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laptop bag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Oakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RATED RUDE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Budget Lockup - No Entry!]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/first-dog-on-the-moon-112/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Anti-union campaign did what it was supposed to</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/28/anti-union-campaign-did-what-it-was-supposed-to/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/28/anti-union-campaign-did-what-it-was-supposed-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heartland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miserable failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[union campaign]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before it gets too firmly entrenched as conventional wisdom, it's worth querying the idea that the election campaign, and particularly the anti-union theme, was a miserable failure for the Coalition, writes Charles Richardson.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crikey Says</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/29/crikey-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/29/crikey-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mr turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sad commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasurer Peter Costello]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It sounds hopelessly naive, but whatever happened to simple, unadorned honesty? When did that become a political negative?
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reality check: And the Oz soldiers stoically on</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/29/reality-check-and-the-oz-soldiers-stoically-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/29/reality-check-and-the-oz-soldiers-stoically-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centrebet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sportingbet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney Morning Herald]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The gap between the views of the top brass at The Australian and its readers continues to be marked with the paper still searching desperately for the best possible light to shine on the Coalition campaign while Labor is the clear choice of the consumers of those very same stories. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>One female reporter does not a balanced panel make</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/22/one-female-reporter-does-not-a-balanced-panel-make/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/22/one-female-reporter-does-not-a-balanced-panel-make/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canberra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crikey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Speers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney Morning Herald]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Women who own property have been able to vote in South Australia since 1861 and all women since 1894. All Australian women have been able to vote in federal elections since 1902. Canberra, however, is blokesville – as last night’s debate showed, writes Christian Kerr.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Day One, Election &#8217;07: What the papers say</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/15/day-one-election-07-what-the-papers-say/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/15/day-one-election-07-what-the-papers-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert McClelland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The view from the nation's papers this morning. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/15/day-one-election-07-what-the-papers-say/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Flint: Has Labor peaked too early?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/17/flint-has-labor-peaked-too-early/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/17/flint-has-labor-peaked-too-early/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw opposition leader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opposition leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yitzhak rabin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the polls and the destabilisation of the last week, the Coalition kept its nerve. Now the battle lines are changing – the “presidential” campaign is finished. A second front has opened and the portrayal will be of the team for the 21st century, writes David Flint.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>But &#8220;the party&#8221; doesn&#8217;t decide: individuals do</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/12/but-the-party-doesnt-decide-individuals-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/12/but-the-party-doesnt-decide-individuals-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[excite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One thing at least emerges from the Liberal Party's very public trauma of the last few days - that a federal leadership change is now pretty clearly in the party's short-term interest.]]></description>
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		<title>APEC generates words, words and more words</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/07/apec-generates-words-words-and-more-words/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/07/apec-generates-words-words-and-more-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chinese president]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president george bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state condoleezza rice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Papers are full of APEC stories this morning as you would expect but there's nothing really newsworthy in any of them outside the arrest of the ABC comedians.]]></description>
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		<title>Scores affair: a study in what makes a yarn a story</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/20/scores-affair-a-study-in-what-makes-a-yarn-a-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/20/scores-affair-a-study-in-what-makes-a-yarn-a-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Downer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lordy lordy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[milne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another day on which to join the dots to get the picture on how Canberra works, and once again to ask the question: can the Gallery actually get a story without having to rely on noxious drip feeds?

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		<title>Scores: good clean fun?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/20/scores-good-clean-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/20/scores-good-clean-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Downer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lordy lordy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A visit to Scores -- innocent laddish fun? Maybe – but there’s usually another side to these sorts of joints, and the <i>New York Daily News</i> had plenty to say about Scores just over two years ago, writes Christian Kerr. 
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		<title>Costello: did he or didn’t he?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/16/costello-did-he-or-didnt-he/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/16/costello-did-he-or-didnt-he/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[omerta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[question time]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Incompetent parliamentary tactics from the ALP and Club Canberra’s code of omerta are obscuring a fundamental question: did the Treasurer actually say of the Prime Minister "He can’t win; I can. We can, but he can’t"?]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshot of a PM-(still)-in-waiting</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/15/snapshot-of-a-pm-still-in-waiting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/15/snapshot-of-a-pm-still-in-waiting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abc reporter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disloyal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volunteered]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Costello leadership revelation should come as no surprise. Over the past three years we have gradually seen the opinions of the prime minister-(still)-in-waiting seep through the cracks in his public loyalty to the PM. Crikey maps them. ]]></description>
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		<title>Costello speaks: an ethics lesson from a liar</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/15/costello-speaks-an-ethics-lesson-from-a-liar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/15/costello-speaks-an-ethics-lesson-from-a-liar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Speers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalistic ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mr costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A low key Peter Costello fronted a doorstop outside the Ministerial Entrance at 8:40 this morning with a very important message: you can’t trust journalists.]]></description>
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		<title>Playing the interest rate blame game</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/06/playing-the-interest-rate-blame-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/06/playing-the-interest-rate-blame-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Howard government says: states are to blame if there's an interest rate rise. Economists and commentators say: um, no actually. 



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		<title>Cobber cans Kev’s compromises</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/24/cobber-cans-kevs-compromises/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/24/cobber-cans-kevs-compromises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Beazley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[target]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd seems to be practising a crude form of utilitarianism. He believes winning the greatest number of seats will guarantee the greatest happiness for the ALP – and is determined not to let anything get in his way.]]></description>
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		<title>NT mining royalties land in Mal Brough&#8217;s Queensland electorate</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/12/nt-mining-royalties-land-in-mal-broughs-queensland-electorate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/12/nt-mining-royalties-land-in-mal-broughs-queensland-electorate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advisory committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[benefit account]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Grattan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough took $100,000 from Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory and gave it to the organisers of a cultural festival in his own Queensland electorate of Longman, writes Chris Graham. 
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