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	<title>Crikey &#187; QLD</title>
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		<title>Six degrees of Kevin Bacon, brought to you by News Ltd</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-brought-to-you-by-news-ltd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/06/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-brought-to-you-by-news-ltd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Bligh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green paper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Paul Langbroek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kevin bacon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Ltd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political appointments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Queensland state politics is a messy political battle ground at the moment. And it's News Ltd who are fuelling the fire, with an unfair double standard.]]></description>
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		<title>Kyle and Jackie O backlash continues</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/31/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-50/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/31/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-50/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anne henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jackie o and kyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red meat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rosemary stanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Fitzgerald]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Crikey</em> readers weigh-in on Kyle and Jackie O, the red meat health debate and the Tony Fitzgerald's speech on corruption in Queensland.]]></description>
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		<title>Truth overboard in the Pacific Adventurer incident</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/09/truth-overboard-in-the-pacific-adventurer-incident/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/09/truth-overboard-in-the-pacific-adventurer-incident/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[man-made disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Adventurer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In case of the Pacific Adventurer the Australian media almost instantly made a scapegoat of Captain Bernardino Santos, writes <b>Edgar Gold</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>QLD seat of Beaudesert: Pauline or the yoof?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/25/qld-seat-of-beaudesert-pauline-or-the-yoof/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/25/qld-seat-of-beaudesert-pauline-or-the-yoof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Brother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LNP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pauline Hanson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The LNP has handed what should be a reasonably safe seat to a local youth whose main claim to fame is invading the stage of the 2005 final episode of Big Brother to publicise his band, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dengue fever heads south</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/06/dengue-fever-heads-south/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/06/dengue-fever-heads-south/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dengue fever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rainwater tanks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While residents of Southern states have been expiring through the heatwave, folks in Far North Queensland have been contending with a dengue fever epidemic, writes <b>Matthew Leonard</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Lawrence Springborg&#8217;s kooky rebranding exercise</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/09/lawrence-springborgs-kooky-rebranding-exercise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/09/lawrence-springborgs-kooky-rebranding-exercise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Bligh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawrence Springborg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Queensland LNP leader Lawrence Springborg has started talking up the possibility of former Minister Mal Brough running for a Labor held state seat. This is quite bizarre, writes <b>Mark Bahnisch</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Anti-Muslim protest takes Cronulla to the Gold Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/02/anti-muslim-protest-takes-cronulla-to-the-gold-coast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/02/anti-muslim-protest-takes-cronulla-to-the-gold-coast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Bligh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muslim school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muslims in australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[xenophobia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you needed any confirmation that Australia’s xenophobic and racist underbelly is still alive and well, then look no further than Queensland’s Gold Coast, writes <b>Greb Barns</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Decriminalising abortion &#8212; what now for the other states?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/27/decriminalising-abortion-what-now-for-the-other-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/27/decriminalising-abortion-what-now-for-the-other-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion pill ru486]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical treatments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the implications for other states, now that abortion has been decriminalised in Victoria, asks <b>Caroline DeCosta</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Golden Circle finally falls to foreigners after B&amp;B plunder</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/golden-circle-finally-falls-to-foreigners-after-bb-plunder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/golden-circle-finally-falls-to-foreigners-after-bb-plunder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babcock and Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fruit and vegetables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Iconic Queensland pineapple cannery and fruit juicer Golden Circle is finally being sold to a food multinational -- Heinz, writes <b>Michael Pascoe</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/golden-circle-finally-falls-to-foreigners-after-bb-plunder/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>How land clearing became a Howard bumper crop</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/how-land-clearing-became-a-howard-bumper-crop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/how-land-clearing-became-a-howard-bumper-crop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national heritage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[native forest logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter beattie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we want to use native forests as a means to avoid doing something about climate change, we first have to slow the pace at which we’re destroying them – legally and illegally, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/how-land-clearing-became-a-howard-bumper-crop/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ugly Ducklings in Queensland: Molony on Women</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/21/ugly-ducklings-in-queensland-molony-on-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/21/ugly-ducklings-in-queensland-molony-on-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john molony]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Councillor John Molony has been propelled to fame, if only briefly, for his comments that "beauty-disadvantaged" women would be welcome in the mining town of Mount Isa, writes <b>Binoy Kampmark</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>LNP: new name, same dribbling hicks and hacks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/28/lnp-new-name-same-dribbling-hicks-and-hacks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/28/lnp-new-name-same-dribbling-hicks-and-hacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weekend's conservative merger in Queensland is a humiliating defeat for senior federal Liberals, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/28/lnp-new-name-same-dribbling-hicks-and-hacks/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mungo: We are witnessing the last days of the Nationals</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/28/mungo-we-are-witnessing-the-last-days-of-the-nationals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/28/mungo-we-are-witnessing-the-last-days-of-the-nationals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early days of Federation a party to represent the special interests of the outback made sense, but now its days are clearly numbered, writes <b>Mungo MacCallum</b>.
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/28/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/28/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget a love-in with Queensland Nationals, forget the warm and fuzzy leadership of Dr Nelson. Down in front of the student union office at Melbourne University today, the Young Liberals are back to core Liberal values. A sign is being displayed &#8220;End Poverty, Get a Job&#8221;.
Regarding Friday&#8217;s tip concerning Big W&#8217;s plasma TV let-down. Maybe you should have [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Between a Brough and a hard place</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/24/between-a-brough-and-a-hard-place/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/24/between-a-brough-and-a-hard-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nationals were happy to sign up for a Liberal merger two years ago - is paranoia about Mal Brough the only thing standing in the way this time? <b>Bernard Keane</b> writes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Merri Rose case fails to excite the CMC</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/17/merri-rose-case-fails-to-excite-the-cmc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/17/merri-rose-case-fails-to-excite-the-cmc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is a key ingredient in public life, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/17/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/17/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It now seems that the discovery of a Federal Police operative working out of the office of the CFMEU Furnishing divisions is about to explode in the faces of those who employed him and why! Fireworks expected. 
Former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie blew his stack at the weekend over the resurfacing of allegations that he [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>CMC allegations of relationship between Beattie and Rose</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/13/cmc-allegations-of-relationship-between-beattie-and-rose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/13/cmc-allegations-of-relationship-between-beattie-and-rose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[merrie rose]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Queensland Opposition has referred serious allegations to the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Queensland perspective on Henson</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/03/a-queensland-perspective-on-henson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/03/a-queensland-perspective-on-henson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still feel the shame of Queensland, the laughing stock, the State where police and politicians interfered in artistic matters with heavy hands and jack booted feet, writes <b>Stephen Keim</b>.
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		<title>QLD Libs won&#8217;t applaud the Nats&#8217; proposed constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/02/qld-libs-wont-applaud-the-nats-proposed-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/02/qld-libs-wont-applaud-the-nats-proposed-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mal brough]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more Queensland Liberals look at the draft Liberal National Party constitution, the less likely they are to vote for it, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Springborg &#8211; The Borg &#8211; returns, this time as farce</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/27/springborg-the-borg-returns-this-time-as-farce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/27/springborg-the-borg-returns-this-time-as-farce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lawrence Springborg]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Springborg has taken the extraordinary step of shovelling dirt into the Nationals' grave, writes <b>Mark Bahnisch</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Queensland Nats: this unity thing is about saving our bacon</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/25/queensland-nats-this-unity-thing-is-about-saving-our-bacon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/25/queensland-nats-this-unity-thing-is-about-saving-our-bacon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "United Conservative Party" debate being played out in Queensland has little to do with unity. It's more more to do with desperation according to insiders, writes <b>Mark Bahnisch</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Has Kevin Rudd learned from his youthful exuberance?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/12/03/has-kevin-rudd-learned-from-his-youthful-exuberance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/12/03/has-kevin-rudd-learned-from-his-youthful-exuberance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is twelve months tomorrow since Rudd became Labor leader. For most of this time, he has operated as a one man show. He cannot continue to do that as Prime Minister, writes Christian Kerr.]]></description>
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		<title>Bahnisch: Why Labor did so well in Queensland</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/25/bahnisch-why-labor-did-so-well-in-queensland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/25/bahnisch-why-labor-did-so-well-in-queensland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are four basic reasons why Labor did so very well in the Sunshine state, writes Mark Bahnisch.]]></description>
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		<title>Bahnisch: Expect the unexpected in Queensland</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/22/bahnisch-expect-the-unexpected-in-queensland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/22/bahnisch-expect-the-unexpected-in-queensland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are seats in Queensland that were probably in play early in the piece, but are probably more or less decided now. Secondly, my feeling from what I hear from the ground is that the race is tighter in the "true" marginals than in some seats that should be "safe" for the Coalition, writes Mark Bahnisch.]]></description>
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