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	<title>Crikey &#187; people smuggling</title>
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		<title>High court battle fuels leadership speculation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/02/high-court-battle-turns-into-a-leadership-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/02/high-court-battle-turns-into-a-leadership-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber Jamieson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Bowen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigaration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Crikey media wrap</b>: When the High Court struck down the government's hyped Malaysia refugee plan this week, its decision started a media flurry about the government's ability to rule -- and Julia Gillard's to lead.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>People smuggling won&#8217;t stop until the customer base dissolves</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/21/people-smuggling-wont-stop-until-the-customer-base-dissolves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/21/people-smuggling-wont-stop-until-the-customer-base-dissolves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ashmore Reef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smuggling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=194175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s virtually impossible to adequately police the thousands of kilometres of Indonesian coastline and prevent Indonesia’s fishermen from crewing boats to Australia, writes <b>Sue Hoffman</b>, a Perth-based refugee advocate.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wilkie&#8217;s &#8216;disruption operation&#8217; solution: sugar in the fuel tank?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/20/wilkies-disruption-operation-solution-sugar-in-the-fuel-tank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/20/wilkies-disruption-operation-solution-sugar-in-the-fuel-tank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cowie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AFP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Wilkie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smuggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=193950</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Intelligence sharing, sugar in the fuel tank or drilling holes in boats -- just what did Andrew Wilkie mean when he called for re-energised "disruption operations" as a way of halting the people smuggling trade?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gans: Let&#8217;s get in on this people smuggling business</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/08/gans-lets-get-in-on-this-people-smuggling-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/08/gans-lets-get-in-on-this-people-smuggling-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Timor Solution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smuggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=151519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What a mess asylum seeker policy appears to be, with so little clear articulation of what it is in the context of other options that existed. It's all about looking "tough", writes <b>Joshua Gans</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>Barns: anti-people smuggling law flawed and innocents will suffer</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/27/barns-anti-people-smuggling-law-flawed-and-innocents-will-suffer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/27/barns-anti-people-smuggling-law-flawed-and-innocents-will-suffer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Brewer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohamed Haneef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smugglers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=133404</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ASIO's powers will be greatly expanded under the government's new anti-people smuggling laws. Courts have to send people to jail for no less than three years or five years if they are involved in people smuggling.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>My life as a people smuggler</title>
		<link>http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/easy-money-in-a-desperate-trade/story-e6freuy9-1225852509157</link>
		<comments>http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/easy-money-in-a-desperate-trade/story-e6freuy9-1225852509157#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=129629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fake visa stamps, paying a corrupt airport official to open a side door, waiting at McDonalds, making $500,000 profit -- it was an easy life until John Howard stopped the boats, says one former people smuggler turned AFP covert agent.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Porous borders would save millions in terms of people smuggling</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/30/porous-borders-would-save-millions-in-terms-of-people-smuggling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/30/porous-borders-would-save-millions-in-terms-of-people-smuggling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smuggling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=127077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Making people smuggling legal and properly regulated would be a winner for the Australian economy and save billions on silly games such as Christmas Island.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The answer is ASIO</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/24/whatever-the-question-labors-answer-is-asio/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/24/whatever-the-question-labors-answer-is-asio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ASIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smuggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=118930</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another security announcement, another boost for ASIO. It doesn’t take an alfoil-wearing conspiracy theorist to see a pattern, the Government is keen to bolster its security credentials.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Oceanic Viking sunk our relationship with Indonesia</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/rudd-to-blame-after-bridges-burnt/story-e6frg6zo-1225812945106</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/rudd-to-blame-after-bridges-burnt/story-e6frg6zo-1225812945106#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=108032</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the <em>Oceanic Viking</em> refugees are now resettled in Australia, thanks to pressure applied by Kevin Rudd. But pity those 255 Tamils waiting in Merak, because Rudd has used up all Indonesia's good will, writes <b>Paul Maley</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>How to balance the human stories against the hard rhetoric</title>
		<link>http://newmatilda.com/2009/12/15/clear-message-people-smuggling</link>
		<comments>http://newmatilda.com/2009/12/15/clear-message-people-smuggling#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=106057</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the focus on leadership spills and Copenahgen, people smuggling has been put on the political backburner. But expect refugees to be an even more bloody election battle than climate change, says <b>Suvendrini Perera</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>VIDEO: Inside the Indonesia-Australia people smuggling trade</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/video-inside-the-indonesia-australia-people-smuggling-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/video-inside-the-indonesia-australia-people-smuggling-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=100452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Al Jazeera</em> goes inside a network of people smugglers taking asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia, revealing some closely-guarded secrets of the human trafficking trade. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Myopia and forgetfulness the preferred direction on foreign policy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/myopia-and-forgetfulness-the-preferred-direction-on-foreign-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/myopia-and-forgetfulness-the-preferred-direction-on-foreign-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/myopia-and-forgetfulness-the-preferred-direction-on-foreign-policy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the Rudd Labor government was elected two years ago, there were high hopes that it would leave behind the more negative foreign policies of its predecessor Howard coalition government. What we have, though, is a foreign policy shambles.
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		<title>Allard: Humane, but definitely not tough</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/sri-lankan-solution-will-not-deter-people-smugglers-20091112-ia6a.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/sri-lankan-solution-will-not-deter-people-smugglers-20091112-ia6a.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98522</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So much for "tough but humane": the Government's offer to resettle refugees aboard the <em>Oceanic Viking</em> has turned the whole saga into a farcical political pantomime, says <b>Tom Allard</b>. It will do nothing to deter people smugglers. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s &#8220;secret plan&#8221; to increase Sri Lankan migration</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/national/secret-plan-to-boost-migrants-from-sri-lanka-20091111-i9zs.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/national/secret-plan-to-boost-migrants-from-sri-lanka-20091111-i9zs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government is looking to allow more Sri Lankans to emigrate legally to Australia in an effort to reduce the incentive for them to come via people smugglers.]]></description>
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		<title>Bartlett: A call to stop mandatory detention for people smugglers</title>
		<link>http://asiancorrespondent.com/andrew-bartlett-blog/indonesian-fisherman-getting-caught.htm</link>
		<comments>http://asiancorrespondent.com/andrew-bartlett-blog/indonesian-fisherman-getting-caught.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97811</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone caught assisting with the unlawful entrance of asylum seekers to Australia is brandished a people smuggler and receives mandatory detention. Is Indonesia's unhappiness at Australia imprisoning some of their poorest damaging our diplomatic relations? asks <b>Andrew Bartlett</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>In defence of people smugglers</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/grateful-to-the-people-smugglers-20091103-hu8p.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/grateful-to-the-people-smugglers-20091103-hu8p.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd may deride people smugglers as the "scum of the Earth", but for <b>Andrew Casey</b>, they're the people who gave him the opportunity for a better life.]]></description>
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		<title>Possum: The first big poll on asylum seekers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/11/02/first-big-polling-on-asylum-seeker-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/11/02/first-big-polling-on-asylum-seeker-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Possum Comitatus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long awaited polling on public perceptions of the asylum seeker issue is in, finding 52% think the Government is too weak on border protection and 66% support the decision to turn back boats. <b>Possum Comitatus</b> has more.]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Kevin Rudd&#8217;s &#8220;scum of the earth&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/meet-kevin-rudds-scum-of-the-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Gosford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two men charged with bringing a boatload of Afghani asylum seekers into Australian waters appeared before the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory last week. Are these the people really "scum of the Earth"? ]]></description>
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		<title>Carney: Rudd steers the future course of asylum seekers</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/rudd-can-chart-a-new-course-20091020-h6uf.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/rudd-can-chart-a-new-course-20091020-h6uf.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=94250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd is struggling to balance his "tough, but fair" asylum seeker line. Why doesn't he take a more humanitarian stand, but be honest and acknowledge the possible increase of people smuggling? asks <b>Shaun Carney</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Asylum seekers: territorial security versus electoral suicide</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/20/asylum-seekers-territorial-security-versus-electoral-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/20/asylum-seekers-territorial-security-versus-electoral-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd repeatedly denounces traffickers as "the vilest form of people on the planet" but says nothing whatsoever about those governing Sri Lanka -- almost as if it’s morally worse to smuggle victims away from atrocities than it is to perpetrate them in the first place.]]></description>
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		<title>The boat people budget bonanza</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/the-boat-people-budget-bonanza/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/the-boat-people-budget-bonanza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our economy benefits extraordinarily from immigration, often to the detriment of the countries from which the arrivals come. So why are the broader economic issues surrounding boat people ignored? asks <b>Tom Elliott</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>How Rudd sent the wrong message</title>
		<link>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/10/15/bring-back-the-pacific-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/10/15/bring-back-the-pacific-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=93342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd's decision to grant protection visas to all 42 Afghan asylum seekers from the boat that exploded off Ashmore Reef in April may prove to be one of the biggest political and policy mistakes he has made, says <b>Ken Parish</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Andrews: Rudd&#8217;s people-smuggling policy in tatters</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26215155-7583,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26215155-7583,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd was naive to think he could water down Australia's immigration policies and still discourage people smugglers, says Howard government immigration minister <b>Kevin Andrews</b>. And it is "genuine refugees" who will suffer most as a result.]]></description>
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		<title>People smugglers are people too</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/national/rudd-talks-tough-on-people-smugglers-20091014-gxgk.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/national/rudd-talks-tough-on-people-smugglers-20091014-gxgk.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=93044</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PM Kevin Rudd may be talking tough on immigration, but putting the pressure on people smugglers -- sometimes 'mum and dad' operations -- will simply strain diplomatic relations with Indonesia. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fred Nile turns people smuggler</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/liberty-tested-on-river-nile-20091014-gxc3.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/liberty-tested-on-river-nile-20091014-gxc3.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=93040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Christian Democrat Fred Nile is getting into the people smuggling business, with plans to smuggle 2000 Christian asylum seekers by boat into Australia from Indonesia.]]></description>
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