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		<title>Do Australians still vote along class lines?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2010/04/15/class-voting-and-broad-left-demography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Possum Comitatus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, brickies voted Labour, bankers voted Liberal and the Greens were but a twinkle in Mother Earth's eye. But have things really changed? <b>Possum Comitatus</b> looks at the data.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday, party system!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 03:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One hundred years ago today, MPs from what had been two separate parties, Free Traders and Protectionists, met together for the first time, and a a class-based party system was born.]]></description>
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		<title>Trashing Pauline Hanson was a class act</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If sexism remains one of the great unmentionables in Australian politics, class is even more so, writes <b>Jeff Sparrow</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Canberra’s shallow gene pool no mirror to the nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventy per cent of Labor’s front bench are – allegedly – former union officials? Well, Parliament as a whole cannot be said to mirror the Australian population. That’s what the Parliamentary Library found in a research note last year, writes Christian Kerr.]]></description>
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