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	<title>Crikey &#187; NSW Labor Government</title>
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		<title>NSW ALP rank-and-file told to commit political suicide</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/nsw-alp-rank-and-file-told-to-commit-political-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/nsw-alp-rank-and-file-told-to-commit-political-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday last week, the NSW Left voted against one of its defining tenets, namely the support of rank-and-file preselections, writes <b>Prue Believer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>McGurk&#8217;s body takes on political smell</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/07/the-smell-of-mcgurk-is-turning-a-bit-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/07/the-smell-of-mcgurk-is-turning-a-bit-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Saville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Rhiannon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael McGurk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political scandal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend in Balmain we had a whole new scandal to discuss -- Michael McGurk and any links to the ALP. Although the standover man and his cohorts are not locals, the aftershocks from his shooting quickly spread.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Askin era in NSW wasn&#8217;t only about corruption</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/07/askin-era-in-nsw-wasnt-only-about-corruption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/07/askin-era-in-nsw-wasnt-only-about-corruption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Askin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is fraudulent of the NSW Labor Party to insist repeatedly that the late NSW Premier Sir Robert Askin led a government that did nothing more than shuffle brown paper bags full of SP money.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minister Joe Tripodi and top bureaucrat at 10 paces</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/29/minister-joe-tripodi-and-top-bureaucrat-at-10-paces/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/29/minister-joe-tripodi-and-top-bureaucrat-at-10-paces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Hazzard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Tripodi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The political dysfunction at the centre of the NSW Government now involves a stand-off between the Infrastucture Minister Joe Tripodi and the Infrastructure Coordinator-General Bob Leece.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Call to modernise NSW ALP grows desperate</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/28/call-to-modernise-nsw-alp-grows-desperate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/28/call-to-modernise-nsw-alp-grows-desperate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penny Sharpe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The bureaucracy in Sussex Street, by its very nature, is impervious to change.]]></description>
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		<title>A new logo for NSW?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/28/a-new-logo-for-nsw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/28/a-new-logo-for-nsw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips and rumours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centrelink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter McPhee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney Morning Herald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is there a better way to bust a recession that pay a design team squillions to come up with a new logo?]]></description>
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		<title>Rees minus Tripodi and Obeid, equals a healed NSW ALP</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/30/rees-minus-tripodi-and-obeid-equals-a-healed-nsw-alp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/30/rees-minus-tripodi-and-obeid-equals-a-healed-nsw-alp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eddie Obeid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Tripodi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nathan Rees will continue to flounder as NSW Premier until he sacks his Finance Minister Joe Tripodi and empties ALP faction boss Eddie Obeid out of the upper house, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Queensland gives hope to the hopeless</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/25/queensland-gives-hope-to-the-hopeless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/25/queensland-gives-hope-to-the-hopeless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Bligh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawrence Springborg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LNP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ALP has won a lot of elections in the last decade, but few of them have confounded expectations as much as Saturday's victory in Queensland, writes <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Babcock &amp; Brown political donations will be missed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/18/babcock-brown-political-donations-will-be-missed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/18/babcock-brown-political-donations-will-be-missed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babcock and Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Arbib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morris Iemma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political donations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the helium-driven investment bank Babcock &#038; Brown collapsed into the arms of the administrator last Friday, the major political parties lowered their flags to half mast, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>GEO joins NSW privatised jail race</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/12/geo-joins-nsw-privatised-jail-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/12/geo-joins-nsw-privatised-jail-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Robertson is following in the former Treasurer's footsteps by implementing the private management of jails in flagrant opposition to NSW Labor Party policy, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW spin doctors find another frog to save</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/11/nsw-spin-doctors-find-another-frog-to-save/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/11/nsw-spin-doctors-find-another-frog-to-save/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a controversial development, the NSW Government spin doctors reach into their top drawer and produce a frog yarn, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ethics of NSW MPs &#8212; annual reports a joke</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/10/ethics-of-nsw-mps-annual-reports-a-joke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/10/ethics-of-nsw-mps-annual-reports-a-joke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Carr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The annual reports of the Parliamentary Ethics Adviser of the NSW Parliament have been tabled and each report is typed on less than two pages of foolscap paper, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW MP caught in jail privatisation conflict</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/06/nsw-mp-caught-in-jail-privatisation-conflict/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/06/nsw-mp-caught-in-jail-privatisation-conflict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political donations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatisation deal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can the Public Service Association "comrades" union expect tireless support from Paul McLeay, their former deputy general secretary? Asks <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Premier Rees&#8217; latest recruits offer new hope</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/05/premier-rees-latest-recruits-offer-new-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/05/premier-rees-latest-recruits-offer-new-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cavalry has arrived to provide some relief for the besieged Nathan Rees Government in the form of Graham Wedderburn and Bob Leece, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW mafia stains Labor and Liberal alike</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/24/nsw-mafia-stains-labor-and-liberal-alike/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/24/nsw-mafia-stains-labor-and-liberal-alike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criminal elements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Tripodi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mick Keelty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The overnight decision by the AFP to re-investigate donations to the Liberal Party by colourful characters with alleged Italian Mafia links is like an unguided Exocet missile.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Botany Bay car park doomed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/20/botany-bay-car-park-doomed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/20/botany-bay-car-park-doomed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Sartor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greens party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The outrageous proposal by Rockdale City Council to build a 100-vehicle car park on the beachfront of Botany Bay has been scrapped, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW Planning Minister Keneally romperstomps</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/11/nsw-planning-minister-keneally-romperstomps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/11/nsw-planning-minister-keneally-romperstomps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Sartor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NSW Planning Minister Kristina Keneally has trampled over community objections in two major development approvals this week , writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Reward: Plum jobs for wrecking bureaucratic disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/09/reward-plum-jobs-for-wrecking-bureaucratic-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/09/reward-plum-jobs-for-wrecking-bureaucratic-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three NSW government asylum seekers have fled the scene of the crime and been rewarded with salary packages worth more than $300,000 in Canberra, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cherie Burton MP, Part Three: From tireless to exhausted</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/12/cherie-burton-mp-part-three-from-tireless-to-exhausted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/12/cherie-burton-mp-part-three-from-tireless-to-exhausted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Cherie Burton may be hyper-active in the high streets and back streets of the electorate, her performance in parliament has been lamentable, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/12/cherie-burton-mp-part-three-from-tireless-to-exhausted/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cherie Burton MP part two: Sussex to Macquarie St</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/11/cherie-burton-mp-part-two-sussex-to-macquarie-st/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/11/cherie-burton-mp-part-two-sussex-to-macquarie-st/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Carr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Della Bosca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Arbib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morris Iemma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reba Meagher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ms Burton’s entire career has been as a factional player in NSW ALP politics, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/11/cherie-burton-mp-part-two-sussex-to-macquarie-st/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Newcastle TV reader&#8217;s dazzling ministerial rise</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/20/newcastle-tv-readers-dazzling-ministerial-rise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/20/newcastle-tv-readers-dazzling-ministerial-rise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morris Iemma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The meteoric parliamentary career of Jodi McKay, the Labor MP for Newcastle, continues to amaze her caucus colleagues in Macquarie Street, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/20/newcastle-tv-readers-dazzling-ministerial-rise/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW, the premier state: for unemployment, dysfunction &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/18/nsw-the-premier-state-for-unemployment-dysfunction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/18/nsw-the-premier-state-for-unemployment-dysfunction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s news of a fall in retail sales in NSW in the September quarter points to the extraordinarily serious problems the NSW economy currently faces, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/18/nsw-the-premier-state-for-unemployment-dysfunction/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Meagher&#8217;s evidence blows Newman case wide open</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/10/meaghers-evidence-blows-newman-case-wide-open/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/10/meaghers-evidence-blows-newman-case-wide-open/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Della Bosca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reba Meagher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Evidence from Reba Meagher casts a new light on the conviction of Phuong Ngo for the murder of NSW ALP MP John Newman writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.
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		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/10/meaghers-evidence-blows-newman-case-wide-open/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sydney&#8217;s Metro Line goes down the gurgler</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/31/sydneys-metro-line-goes-down-the-gurgler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/31/sydneys-metro-line-goes-down-the-gurgler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael costa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morris Iemma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[railway trains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The train standing on platform 1 is the Labor Government special service to electoral oblivion. It will be leaving at the state election in March 2011, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/31/sydneys-metro-line-goes-down-the-gurgler/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Currawong Beach, Labor and the laps of developers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/28/currawong-beach-labor-and-the-laps-of-developers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/28/currawong-beach-labor-and-the-laps-of-developers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national heritage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw greens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a spectacle: the conservatives and arch-conservatives voting with the Greens to protect the Unions NSW-owned holiday venue from Labor-backed developers, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/28/currawong-beach-labor-and-the-laps-of-developers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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