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	<title>Crikey &#187; Murray Darling Basin</title>
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		<title>National Water Commission report: going backwards on environmental management</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/13/national-water-commission-i-going-backwards-on-environmental-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/13/national-water-commission-i-going-backwards-on-environmental-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Water Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penny Wong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The National Water Commission’s report on water reform may be one of the most dispiriting government reports ever compiled. River systems are collapsing and regional communities suffering.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Queensland farmers rise up to take on the miners</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/queensland-farmers-rise-up-to-take-on-the-miners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/queensland-farmers-rise-up-to-take-on-the-miners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darling Downs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Queensland's Surat Basin has the third largest energy resource in the world but farm groups are warning that mining areas risk catastrophic environmental damage to food-producing areas, reports <b>Amanda Gearing</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Murray Darling deals in a shocking state</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/pig-headed-hold-outs-refuse-to-deal-on-murray-darling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/pig-headed-hold-outs-refuse-to-deal-on-murray-darling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Brumby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mike kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Irrigators' Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penny Wong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While NSW and the Commonwealth have agreed to a deal that will see the lifting of NSW’s embargo on water trading, Victoria and Queensland aren't cooperating. <b>Bernard Keane</b> breaks it down.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>We really are the lucky country, but&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/crikey-says-92/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/23/crikey-says-92/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen Climate Change Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank of australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, we'll admit it. Politicians have done a fairly decent job of running the nation for the last 20 years. However, climate change failings won't be easily forgiven.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Snatch the Murray-Darling Basin from the states to save it</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/24/water-report-part-2-snatch-the-basin-from-the-states-to-save-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/24/water-report-part-2-snatch-the-basin-from-the-states-to-save-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greg hunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Farmers' Federation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a clear solution to the management problems of the Murray-Darling, at least in the view of many South Australians: a full Commonwealth takeover of the Basin, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b> in his second special water report.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Murray-Darling: same mess it always was</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/23/special-report-the-murray-darling-is-the-same-mess-it-always-was/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/23/special-report-the-murray-darling-is-the-same-mess-it-always-was/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSIRO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penny Wong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the first of a two-part series, <b>Bernard Keane</b> looks at just how little has changed -- and how much has been spent -- in the fight to save the Murray-Darling Basin. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/23/special-report-the-murray-darling-is-the-same-mess-it-always-was/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another week of carry on up the Murray</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/mungo-another-week-of-carry-on-up-the-murray/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/mungo-another-week-of-carry-on-up-the-murray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mungo MacCallum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mungo MacCallum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the casual observer, last week was political Send in the Clowns week, writes <b>Mungo MacCallum</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/01/mungo-another-week-of-carry-on-up-the-murray/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Murray River a toxic open drain – why don’t we care?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/09/murray-river-a-toxic-open-drain-%e2%80%93-why-don%e2%80%99t-we-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/09/murray-river-a-toxic-open-drain-%e2%80%93-why-don%e2%80%99t-we-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water for the Future Program]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How did this become okay? Asks the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/09/murray-river-a-toxic-open-drain-%e2%80%93-why-don%e2%80%99t-we-care/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stimulus secured: A Xenophon stunt &#8212; on a massive scale</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/13/stimulus-secured-a-xenophon-stunt-on-a-massive-scale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/13/stimulus-secured-a-xenophon-stunt-on-a-massive-scale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Xenophon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus package]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today's passage of the stimulus package is Nick Xenophon's biggest stunt yet, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/13/stimulus-secured-a-xenophon-stunt-on-a-massive-scale/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Water regulation reveals our dysfunctional federal farrago</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/18/water-regulation-reveals-our-dysfunctional-federal-farrago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/18/water-regulation-reveals-our-dysfunctional-federal-farrago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water allocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water conservation initiatives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely has there been such a clear example of why we need a massive program of regulatory harmonisation between the states, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/18/water-regulation-reveals-our-dysfunctional-federal-farrago/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/22/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/22/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSIRO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[GM food ... World Youth Day ... the Murray Darling  ... GM Food ... global warming ... ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/22/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/22/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/22/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tips and rumours]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Myer&#8217;s Dubai announcement deserves a closer look (and it&#8217;s a shame that no journalists has yet done so, apart from swallowing the company&#8217;s spin). Just what are they exporting? As many Crikey tipsters have rightly pointed out, service at Myer is bad and getting worse. Labour is one of the biggest costs, and hacking it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to do a &#8220;murraydarling&#8221; i.e: absolutely nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/21/how-to-do-a-murraydarling-ie-absolutely-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/21/how-to-do-a-murraydarling-ie-absolutely-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our political leaders issued a statement yesterday on the Murray-Darling Basin. Thanks guys -- even we city folks had noticed that the Murray-Darling is up sh-t creek, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/07/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/07/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penny Wong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Garnaut]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Garnaut Review ... the Murray-Darling Basin is doomed ... our love affair with gas-guzzlers ... the death of the Democrats ... ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/07/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why the Murray-Darling Basin is doomed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/04/why-the-murray-darling-basin-is-doomed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/04/why-the-murray-darling-basin-is-doomed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State & Territory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s COAG was a test of whether our Federation is capable of managing Australia’s water resources. They failed again, writes <b>Peter Cosier from the Wentworth Group</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hey Rudd, when you bribe someone, you should get something back</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/04/hey-rudd-when-you-bribe-someone-you-should-get-something-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/04/hey-rudd-when-you-bribe-someone-you-should-get-something-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday at COAG Kevin Rudd’s "cooperative federalism" met old-style politics, and came off second best – along with the Murray-Darling Basin and, in particular, the immensely stressed lower reaches of the system in South Australia.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Murray Darling deal leaves too many unanswered questions</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/04/murray-darling-deal-leaves-too-many-unanswered-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/04/murray-darling-deal-leaves-too-many-unanswered-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking at the details of yesterday's COAG deal on the Murray Darling Basin, there are more questions raised than answered, writes <b>Professor Max Finlayson</b>, Director, Institute for Land, Water and Society at Charles Sturt University.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tug of Water: Can Kevin Rudd save the Murray?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/03/tug-of-water-can-kevin-rudd-save-the-murray/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/03/tug-of-water-can-kevin-rudd-save-the-murray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s COAG meeting and the Murray Darling crisis have suddenly combined to provide a real test of the Prime Minister’s cooperative federalist model, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing Politics: How to think long-term on water</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/24/fixing-politics-how-to-think-long-term-on-water/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/24/fixing-politics-how-to-think-long-term-on-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with climate change, the previous Government remained in denial about water until the very end of its days. The Rudd Government has its own structural problems on water, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kohler: Political courage runs dry over water</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/19/kohler-political-courage-runs-dry-over-water/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/19/kohler-political-courage-runs-dry-over-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two issues that flow from the end of Australia’s 50-year wet: the impending collapse of the Murray-Darling basin and urban water rationing. Not that politicians are addressing the issues, writes <b>Alan Kohler</b>.
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Glenn Milne&#8217;s rising star and the Murray-Darling Basin deal</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/31/glenn-milnes-rising-star-and-the-murray-darling-basin-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/31/glenn-milnes-rising-star-and-the-murray-darling-basin-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Glenn Milne-Peter Costello show ran for some years without, sadly, ever making onto Broadway. Milne, however, may now have a new partner, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/28/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/28/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth Hour ... COAG and the Murray-Darling deal ... The Oz's and the SS Macklin ... the last act of Orkopoulos ... binge drinking ... mortgage stress ... ]]></description>
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		<title>Rudd pulls out the chequebook to deliver Murray-Darling deal</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/27/rudd-pulls-out-the-chequebook-to-deliver-murray-darling-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/27/rudd-pulls-out-the-chequebook-to-deliver-murray-darling-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd bribed his way to a win at COAG, particularly on the Murray-Darling Basin, reports <b>Bernard Keane</b>.
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		<title>Murray-Darling Basin deal: the devil&#8217;s in the details</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/27/murray-darling-basin-deal-the-devils-in-the-details/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/27/murray-darling-basin-deal-the-devils-in-the-details/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victoria has at last signed up. We can now look to one federal authority to manage the unfolding environmental disaster in the Murray-Darling Basin, writes <b>Richard Kingsford</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Labor&#8217;s new federalism shows its first cracks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/27/labors-new-federalism-shows-its-first-cracks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/27/labors-new-federalism-shows-its-first-cracks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the cooperative Labor federalism promised by Kevin Rudd had a relaxed start in late 2007, we’re now seeing the reality of different levels of government with different policy agendas and political needs trying to work together, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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