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	<title>Crikey &#187; Nick Minchin</title>
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		<title>Turnbull&#8217;s climate crunch is coming</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/liberals-need-a-climate-deal-anything-else-rains-havoc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/liberals-need-a-climate-deal-anything-else-rains-havoc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull's only real option is to reject Rudd's CPRS and hand victory to Minchin and his colleagues.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>83</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minchin destroys the Liberal Party to save it</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/crikey-says-132/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/crikey-says-132/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Minchin's appearance onn <em>Four Corners</em> last week was a calculated performance by one of the country's shrewdest political tacticians who knew precisely how the media and his colleagues would react.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/crikey-says-132/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>A radioactive issue for the Coalition?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/a-radioactive-issue-for-the-coalition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/a-radioactive-issue-for-the-coalition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon capture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean coal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Macfarlane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why has Ian Macfarlane completely reversed his opinion on Carbon Capture and Storage -- from such a strong advocate of the when in government to his recent denunciation on <em>Four Corners</em>? asks <b>Michael James</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/a-radioactive-issue-for-the-coalition/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minchin has no excuse for his ignorance</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/mungo-minchin-has-no-excuse-for-his-ignorance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/mungo-minchin-has-no-excuse-for-his-ignorance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mungo MacCallum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mungo MacCallum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change sceptics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The most depressing statistic of modern times is the one that tells us that well over 50% of adult Americans do not believe in evolution. Or it was -- until Nick Minchin came along.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/mungo-minchin-has-no-excuse-for-his-ignorance/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Uncle Kevin&#8217;s Working Family Assortment</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/first-dog-on-the-moon-445/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/first-dog-on-the-moon-445/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Fevola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freddo frog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyle Sandilands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new zealand cricket team]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orangutan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palm oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Fielding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stolen generations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilson Tuckey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the times when saying sorry just isn't enough]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>No happy endings for Coalition after Minchin&#8217;s stance on Telstra</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/no-happy-endings-for-coalition-after-minchins-stance-on-telstra/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/no-happy-endings-for-coalition-after-minchins-stance-on-telstra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telstra]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/no-happy-endings-for-coalition-after-minchins-stance-on-telstra/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Minchin may succeed in delaying Stephen Conroy’s Telstra break-up Bill. But he is painting the Coalition into a corner on Telstra and it’s not going to end well.

]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/no-happy-endings-for-coalition-after-minchins-stance-on-telstra/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>A new Liberal climate position: the Minchin line</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/a-new-liberal-climate-position-the-minchin-line/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/a-new-liberal-climate-position-the-minchin-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Evans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilson Tuckey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/a-new-liberal-climate-position-the-minchin-line/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Climate change is being used by the Government to wedge the Opposition mercilessly, in far more savage a fashion than John Howard ever managed to do to Labor on refugees or national security.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/a-new-liberal-climate-position-the-minchin-line/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>A study in alternative realities</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/crikey-says-101/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/crikey-says-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen Climate Change Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse effect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Schellnhuber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[runaway greenhouse effect]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/crikey-says-101/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Compare the meeting last week in Oxford of the world's most eminent climate scientists with the divided mess of Australia's parliament, with disagreements over the CPRS and Copenhagen.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/crikey-says-101/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crikey wrap: Twitter tears up over NBN announcement</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/07/crikey-wrap-twitter-tears-up-over-nbn-announcement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/07/crikey-wrap-twitter-tears-up-over-nbn-announcement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telstra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=50591</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rudd's surprise announcement this morning that a new company, National Broadband Network Corporation, will be created to build the new Broadband network, has sent the twitterverse aflutter.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/07/crikey-wrap-twitter-tears-up-over-nbn-announcement/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Left and lefter: Keane v Sparrow on political racism</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/27/left-and-lefter-keane-v-sparrow-on-political-racism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/27/left-and-lefter-keane-v-sparrow-on-political-racism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eric abetz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pauline Hanson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reconciliation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a lazy snobbery reflected in the assertion that our major political parties are casually racist, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/27/left-and-lefter-keane-v-sparrow-on-political-racism/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>This year the cut and thrust of the Budget is for real</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/this-year-the-cut-and-thrust-of-the-budget-is-for-real/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/this-year-the-cut-and-thrust-of-the-budget-is-for-real/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsay Tanner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This will be the toughest budget to frame since, probably, the recession budgets of the early 1990s, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/this-year-the-cut-and-thrust-of-the-budget-is-for-real/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kruddiversary: The internet thanks you for 12 months of achieving nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/27/kruddiversary-the-internet-thanks-you-for-12-months-of-achieving-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/27/kruddiversary-the-internet-thanks-you-for-12-months-of-achieving-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stilgherrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filtered internet connection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet service providers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One year on, precisely none of the NBN has been built. The Cyber-Safety Plan is trialling (again) unworkable internet filters while Senator Conroy accuses everyone of being a pervert, writes <b>Stilgherrian</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/27/kruddiversary-the-internet-thanks-you-for-12-months-of-achieving-nothing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t laugh, Terria, this is serious</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/28/dont-laugh-terria-this-is-serious/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/28/dont-laugh-terria-this-is-serious/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telstra]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the would-be-builders of the national broadband network (NBN), Terria, is in trouble, writes <b>AntiGeek</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/28/dont-laugh-terria-this-is-serious/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minchin heads down broadcasting deregulation path</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/07/minchin-heads-down-broadcasting-deregulation-path/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/07/minchin-heads-down-broadcasting-deregulation-path/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin is weighing into the broadcasting deregulation debate, like every other newcomer to the portfolio, writes Bernard Keane.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/07/minchin-heads-down-broadcasting-deregulation-path/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Turnbull&#8217;s front bench: clash of the chihuahuas</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/23/turnbulls-front-bench-clash-of-the-chihuahuas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/23/turnbulls-front-bench-clash-of-the-chihuahuas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Robb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal party of australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sophia mirabella]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to female ministerial representation,  the conservative side has lifted its game. 7 of Labor’s 30 ministers are women, compared to 7 of 32 on the Coalition side, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/23/turnbulls-front-bench-clash-of-the-chihuahuas/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minchin&#8217;s Liberals forget the Senate rules</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/minchins-liberals-forget-the-senate-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/minchins-liberals-forget-the-senate-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor party of australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal party of australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Minchin, in what appears an appalling knowledge of precedent and tradition, last week convinced his colleagues not to offer a candidate for the position of Senate President, writes <b>Noel Crichton-Browne</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/minchins-liberals-forget-the-senate-rules/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Costello Memoir Part 1: the last Howard Budget</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/the-costello-memoir-part-1-the-last-howard-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mal brough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Somebody needed to stand up to Howard and rein in his 2007 budget plans. Unfortunately, Nick Minchin said nothing." A first exclusive peak at the Peter Costello memoirs.
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		<title>Crikey Says</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/23/crikey-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/23/crikey-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pope]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Pope, in case you were too obsessed by the future fortunes of Peter Costello to notice, has recently spent a little time in Sydney. 
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		<title>Emissions trading</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/11/first-dog-on-the-moon-154/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/11/first-dog-on-the-moon-154/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 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[Brendan Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[not just for christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[purple labrador]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who's a good boy then? Who's a good boy?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richard Farmer&#8217;s political bite-sized meaty chunks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/23/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/23/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tania zaetta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meaty snippets from the home of government plus the daily reality check and the pick of other people's political coverage. <b>Richard Farmer</b> writes.]]></description>
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		<title>Crikey Says</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/21/crikey-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/21/crikey-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Downer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Liberal Party must be cleared of its obstructive, distracting dead wood. By which we mean Costello and Lord Downer. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/20/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/20/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lin hatfield dodds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rodney adler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Lin Hatfield-Dodds announced in a blaze of publicity that she was withdrawing from the Olympic torch relay, she gave the impression that she did so with the full support of the various organisations with which she claims allegiance - Uniting Care Australia, the Australian Council of Social Service and the Uniting Church. The only [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal labor government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reba Meagher]]></category>

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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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		<title>Bipartisanism shock: all hands in the pork barrel</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/21/bipartisanism-shock-all-hands-in-the-pork-barrel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/21/bipartisanism-shock-all-hands-in-the-pork-barrel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian national audit office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grand poobah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national audit office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regional partnerships program]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Minchin acted to gag the Australian National Audit Office. So did Robert Ray, writes <b>David MacCormack</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Howard’s End: where was the bitterness?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/19/howards-end-where-was-the-bitterness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/19/howards-end-where-was-the-bitterness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian prime ministers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[falling apart at the seams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Milne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john winston howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a clearer picture of the dying days of the Howard Government emerges, questions suggest themselves. Howard biographer <b>Wayne Errington</b> writes.]]></description>
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