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	<title>Crikey &#187; Productivity Commission</title>
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		<title>Cox: 40 years on and the equal pay gaps continue</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/02/cox-40-years-on-and-the-equal-pay-gaps-continue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/02/cox-40-years-on-and-the-equal-pay-gaps-continue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eva Cox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equal pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It will be 40 years in December since the incoming Whitlam government asked the Arbitration Commission to reopen the equal pay case.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Wilkie&#8217;s pokies reform didn&#8217;t bet on: the internet</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/19/what-wilkies-pokies-reforms-didnt-bet-on-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/19/what-wilkies-pokies-reforms-didnt-bet-on-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Kohler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Wilkie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clubs Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Xenophon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The commotion surrounding Labor's delay of Andrew Wilkie's pokies reform takes on different meaning when viewed through the context of the inevitable, which is that the future of gambling resides on the internet, writes <b>Alan Kohler</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>The 2011 Crikeys: the government policy hits and misses</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/20/the-2011-crikeys-the-government-policy-hits-and-misses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/20/the-2011-crikeys-the-government-policy-hits-and-misses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annual awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Shorten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon pricing package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superannuation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=266078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[2011 was the biggest year in economic policy for a long time - which isn't saying much. What was best and worst?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/20/the-2011-crikeys-the-government-policy-hits-and-misses/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time-honoured rituals of regulation live on</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/02/time-honoured-rituals-of-regulation-live-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/02/time-honoured-rituals-of-regulation-live-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arthur Sinodinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian public service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deregulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=262850</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott's promise to slash red tape is a time-honoured Canberra ritual, but it's a hollow promise. And he should shake up his front bench to inject more policy nous into the mix.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/02/time-honoured-rituals-of-regulation-live-on/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>$400 down, up the Nile without a paddle: life of a problem gambler</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/28/400-down-up-the-nile-without-a-paddle-life-of-a-problem-gambler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/28/400-down-up-the-nile-without-a-paddle-life-of-a-problem-gambler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-commitment for pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[problem gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=249746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reason tells you the sheer easy availability of high stakes, highly addictive poker machines comes at a cost too high for our society to bear. Why do we let this continue? asks <b>Mr Denmore</b> from <a href="http://thefailedestate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Failed Estate</a>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why political strangulation of Sydney Airport is a farce</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/15/why-political-strangulation-of-sydney-airport-is-a-farce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/15/why-political-strangulation-of-sydney-airport-is-a-farce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air traffic control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney Airport]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=247111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At Sydney Airport, jets are being told to stay on the ground, ready to take off, waiting 20 minutes or more, because the airport has exceeded its politically imposed capacity for airliner movements. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/15/why-political-strangulation-of-sydney-airport-is-a-farce/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Searching for truth on productivity</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/07/searching-for-truth-on-productivity-among-the-ir-spin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/07/searching-for-truth-on-productivity-among-the-ir-spin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grattan Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IR reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=245441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For journalists willing to do some work, it's easy to check whether the link being made between IR deregulation and labour productivity stands up.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/07/searching-for-truth-on-productivity-among-the-ir-spin/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ignoring evidence may explain why the income management gap doesn’t close</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/26/ignoring-evidence-may-explain-why-the-income-management-gap-doesn%e2%80%99t-close/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/26/ignoring-evidence-may-explain-why-the-income-management-gap-doesn%e2%80%99t-close/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eva Cox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centrelink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equal rights alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAHCSIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jenny Macklin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Income Management Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=243084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the Productivity Commission releases its latest report on Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage, which shows only 13 of 45 measures showed any improvement and seven went backwards.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/26/ignoring-evidence-may-explain-why-the-income-management-gap-doesn%e2%80%99t-close/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The government should channel Shorten&#8217;s anger</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/11/crikey-says-govt-should-channel-shortens-anger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/11/crikey-says-govt-should-channel-shortens-anger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Shorten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diability services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=240193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["The treatment of people with impairment in Australia is a disgrace," said Bill Shorten last year. The time to end the exile for Australians with disabilities is now.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/11/crikey-says-govt-should-channel-shortens-anger/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Government hastens slowly on disability care and insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/10/government-hastens-slowly-on-disability-care-and-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/10/government-hastens-slowly-on-disability-care-and-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Disability Insurance Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=240272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Productivity Commission has released ita final report on disability, and the government is in no rush to implement it.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/10/government-hastens-slowly-on-disability-care-and-insurance/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>PC report: no help coming for retailers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/05/pc-report-no-help-coming-for-retailers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/05/pc-report-no-help-coming-for-retailers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thomson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Shorten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission inquiry into retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retailers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=239593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the surface, the draft report from the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the structure of the retail sector appears to have some good news. Except for one thing -- there is little chance any of these changes will happen quickly.

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		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/05/pc-report-no-help-coming-for-retailers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Liberals in search of the case for IR reform</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/29/in-search-of-the-case-for-ir-reform-what-did-workchoices-accomplish/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/29/in-search-of-the-case-for-ir-reform-what-did-workchoices-accomplish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial disputes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wage costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=232182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since IR reformers won't explain why we need it, we've looked at what WorkChoices accomplished. It wasn't much.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/29/in-search-of-the-case-for-ir-reform-what-did-workchoices-accomplish/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>PC reveals the great greenhouse rip-off</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/10/pc-reveals-the-great-greenhouse-rip-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/10/pc-reveals-the-great-greenhouse-rip-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian national audit office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uinted States]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=228680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There can no longer be any doubt -- the Australia and overseas experiences shows an ETS is by far the cheapest way to cut emissions]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/10/pc-reveals-the-great-greenhouse-rip-off/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>63</slash:comments>
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		<title>Are we being gouged on delivery as well?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/08/are-we-being-gouged-on-delivery-as-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/08/are-we-being-gouged-on-delivery-as-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHOICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eBay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online retailing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=227913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not merely are Australians being ripped off by local retailers for internationally available goods, it costs more to deliver them.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/08/are-we-being-gouged-on-delivery-as-well/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bartholomeusz: executive pay report on the money</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/26/bartholomeusz-executive-pay-report-on-the-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/26/bartholomeusz-executive-pay-report-on-the-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 03:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bartholomeusz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executive salaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=225448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If the government was expecting a blueprint for influencing/constraining executive remuneration, and incentive payments in particular, it would have been disappointed. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/26/bartholomeusz-executive-pay-report-on-the-money/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Online retailing: the great Australian gouge</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/09/online-retailing-the-great-australian-gouge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/09/online-retailing-the-great-australian-gouge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 03:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iTunes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online retailing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online shopping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Internet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=221777</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australians are being charged far more for products than overseas consumers -- and not just by bricks-and-mortar outlets. <em>Crikey</em> examines the expensive goods and the retailers' hypocrisy.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/09/online-retailing-the-great-australian-gouge/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>78</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mayne: directors club scrambling to retain barriers to entry</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/21/mayne-directors-club-scrambling-to-retain-barriers-to-entry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/21/mayne-directors-club-scrambling-to-retain-barriers-to-entry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Council of Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEO pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nick falloon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ten Network Holdings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=194268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Directors of Australian public companies have long enjoyed something of a closed shop with substantial barriers to entry and very few new entrants attempting to barge their way in uninvited.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/21/mayne-directors-club-scrambling-to-retain-barriers-to-entry/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Infrastructure isn&#8217;t the (whole) answer</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/11/water-and-the-regions-infrastructure-isnt-the-whole-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/11/water-and-the-regions-infrastructure-isnt-the-whole-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=177456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Murray-Darling debate has laid bare the basic problem of how to support regional communities, and whether they should be asked to bear the cost of fixing an historic problem alone.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/11/water-and-the-regions-infrastructure-isnt-the-whole-answer/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>45</slash:comments>
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		<title>The science of pokies make them a special kind of harm creation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/03/the-science-of-pokies-make-them-a-special-kind-of-harm-creation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/03/the-science-of-pokies-make-them-a-special-kind-of-harm-creation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Wilkie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hung parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=169520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pokies and the large networked system within which they operate are extremely effective at modifying what sociologists call the ‘agency’ of many people, affecting the basis on which they utilise their rational capacity, writes <b>Charles Livingstone</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/03/the-science-of-pokies-make-them-a-special-kind-of-harm-creation/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sixth time lucky for aged-care communications</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/27/come-in-spinner-sixth-time-lucky-for-aged-care-communications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/27/come-in-spinner-sixth-time-lucky-for-aged-care-communications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 03:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Come in Spinner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aged care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resources Super Profits Tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=141760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Productivity Commission is starting what will be the sixth major inquiry into aged-care funding -- a policy area that has become a no-go area because of poor initial communications, writes <b>Noel Turnbull</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/27/come-in-spinner-sixth-time-lucky-for-aged-care-communications/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Draconian, perhaps, but changing fag packaging will work</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/29/draconian-perhaps-but-changing-fag-packaging-will-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/29/draconian-perhaps-but-changing-fag-packaging-will-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cigarette packagaing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tobacco industry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=134255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So the Rudd government is adopting the world's "most draconian" cigarette packaging regulations? Good, says <b>Nicholas Gruen</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/29/draconian-perhaps-but-changing-fag-packaging-will-work/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The PC pleases no one on the Murray-Darling &#8212; just the way it should be</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/01/the-pc-pleases-no-one-on-the-murray-darling-just-the-way-it-should-be/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/01/the-pc-pleases-no-one-on-the-murray-darling-just-the-way-it-should-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Darling Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=127854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Productivity Commission's new report on the Murray-Darling Basin provides the tool kit for a more efficient water market and effective establishment of environmental flows. Too bad no one will pay attention.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/01/the-pc-pleases-no-one-on-the-murray-darling-just-the-way-it-should-be/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pokies industry arguments and edifices starting to crumble</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/11/pokies-industry-arguments-and-edifices-starting-to-crumble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/11/pokies-industry-arguments-and-edifices-starting-to-crumble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=122408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the federal government now considering the Productivity Commission’s final report, the pokies industry won’t just be able to heavy individual state governments that are so addicted to the tax revenue.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/11/pokies-industry-arguments-and-edifices-starting-to-crumble/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Winners and losers in the great game of industry assistance</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/08/winners-and-losers-in-the-great-game-of-industry-assistance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/08/winners-and-losers-in-the-great-game-of-industry-assistance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industry assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=121477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia stopped reducing its industry assistance in the 1990s and has been increasing it for years -- mainly to big multinationals in small industries with strong unions. And other sectors are paying the price.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/08/winners-and-losers-in-the-great-game-of-industry-assistance/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW pokies venues looking out for POOPs (Pets of Older Persons)</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/12/nsw-pokies-venues-looking-out-for-poops-pets-of-older-persons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/12/nsw-pokies-venues-looking-out-for-poops-pets-of-older-persons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Saville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ClubsAustralia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dawn Fraser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=116147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Donations to POOPs, as it is known, are at the heart of the present conundrum of clubland. Are they a vital hub of their community, or giant pokie palaces which are using their local connections as a fig leaf?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/12/nsw-pokies-venues-looking-out-for-poops-pets-of-older-persons/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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