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	<title>Crikey &#187; rugby world cup</title>
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		<title>If NZ wins this thing, there&#8217;ll be a bunch of kids named Piri</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/21/if-nz-wins-this-thing-theyll-be-a-bunch-of-kids-named-piri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Zealand v France]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can the All Blacks finally shake off their tag as World Cup chokers? Is the infighting in the French camp a strategic ruse of Napoleonic brilliance? Does anyone have a funnier name than Piri Weepu? <b>Geoff Lemon</b> asks the big questions]]></description>
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		<title>Flash haka</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/06/flash-mob-haka/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/06/flash-mob-haka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of the Rugby World Cup starting this Friday, check out this flash mob doing the haka in Sylvia Park plaza, Auckland.]]></description>
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		<title>A tale of Boks and the World Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/20/daily-proposition-a-tale-of-boks-and-the-world-cup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/20/daily-proposition-a-tale-of-boks-and-the-world-cup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Proposition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, well-known journalist Dan Retief has produced a seminal work on the comp and the part the Springboks have played in it from their entry in 1995. <b>Simon Burrow</b> recommends.]]></description>
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		<title>NSW Labor &#8230; it just gets worse</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/23/nsw-labor-it-just-gets-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/23/nsw-labor-it-just-gets-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rugby world cup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you might have thought, with the holidays looming, that things could not get worse with the New South Wales government, along comes a decision to try and muzzle a Legislative Council committee  enquiring into the circumstances of the late-night signing of agreements to raise billions from electricity assets.]]></description>
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		<title>Rio takeover is great for Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/09/rio-takeover-is-great-for-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/09/rio-takeover-is-great-for-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BHP Billiton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crikey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DFAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rio tinto shares]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analysts are already estimating synergies of up to $5 billion from a BHP-Rio merger and plenty of those would come from closing Rio Tinto’s extravagant London head office and running the entire $500 billion empire out of BHP-Billiton’s Lonsdale Street head office in Melbourne, writes Stephen Mayne.]]></description>
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		<title>NRL future looks bright after Kangaroos win</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/15/nrl-future-looks-bright-after-kangaroos-win/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/15/nrl-future-looks-bright-after-kangaroos-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[rugby league season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rugby world cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world cup favourites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world cup organisers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long 2007 rugby league season is finally over. And it ended as it began – with overwhelming evidence that the rising talent in the NRL premiership gives it an assured future, writes Jeff Wall. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rugby World Cup: Hard heads thwart divine destiny</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/08/rugby-world-cup-hard-heads-thwart-divine-destiny/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/08/rugby-world-cup-hard-heads-thwart-divine-destiny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[australian rugby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rugby fans]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for destiny, the world order and all the scripts that had been written for this Rugby World Cup, writes Michael Pascoe.]]></description>
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		<title>Australians get ugly over the Rugby World Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/08/australians-get-ugly-over-the-rugby-world-cup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/08/australians-get-ugly-over-the-rugby-world-cup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[england]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the history of Australian sporting journalism comes to be written many years from now, one piece will surely be dusted off and held up as perhaps the finest example of its type. Few articles can have been so wide of the mark. Charles Happpell reports.]]></description>
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		<title>Rugby: Time to believe in gold</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/05/rugby-time-to-believe-in-gold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/05/rugby-time-to-believe-in-gold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[doubt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keep the faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lote tuqiri]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Believe in Gold” is not the International Gold Council’s motto, but the ARU’s Rugby World Cup tag line. And it’s time to do just that, writes Michael Pascoe.]]></description>
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		<title>Triumph of the underdogs&#8230; and now the Wallabies’ World Cup begins</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/01/triumph-of-the-underdogs-and-now-the-wallabies-world-cup-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/01/triumph-of-the-underdogs-and-now-the-wallabies-world-cup-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[argentina]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiji v Wales was worth the price of the big screen TV for the Rugby World Cup even if nothing much else happens. And certainly not much was happening for the Wallabies over the weekend, writes Michael Pascoe.]]></description>
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		<title>Rugby: Non-English world turns Tongan, Australia fields its B backs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/28/rugby-non-english-world-turns-tongan-australia-fields-its-b-backs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/28/rugby-non-english-world-turns-tongan-australia-fields-its-b-backs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[england]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiji]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rugby fraternity appreciates an underdog more than most and for the French crowd, well, Tonga is playing England after all writes Michael Pascoe.]]></description>
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		<title>Rugby World Cup – partial answers this weekend for three big questions</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/21/rugby-world-cup-partial-answers-this-weekend-for-three-big-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/21/rugby-world-cup-partial-answers-this-weekend-for-three-big-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[lote tuqiri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[northern hemisphere rugby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rugby heaven]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As good as the Rugby World Cup’s first two weekends have been, this one is of a suitably higher level of importance as the event builds towards the knock-out stage. It’s weekend that promises to at least partially answer some major questions.]]></description>
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		<title>Rugby World Cup: Key suspensions make it even more interesting</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/12/rugby-world-cup-key-suspensions-make-it-even-more-interesting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/12/rugby-world-cup-key-suspensions-make-it-even-more-interesting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mitigating factors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, the RWC citing system is serious and it’s adding another dimension to a Rugby World Cup that is already off to a better start than anyone might have hoped.]]></description>
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		<title>Rugby World Cup: a feast for the bleary eyed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/07/rugby-world-cup-a-feast-for-the-bleary-eyed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/07/rugby-world-cup-a-feast-for-the-bleary-eyed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the Tour de France and Wimbledon, the Rugby World Cup is set to make lunchtime power-napping a necessity over the next few weeks. Michael Pascoe outlines the games that matter. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Rugby Union world cup: Who will bring home Bill?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/06/the-rugby-union-world-cup-who-will-bring-home-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/06/the-rugby-union-world-cup-who-will-bring-home-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the World Cup opener less than 48 hours away, questions and more will be scrutinised, analysed, chewed over and debated in bars all over the rugby-playing world in the coming seven weeks, and finally answered in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on October 21.]]></description>
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		<title>Warriors boost NRL stocks in NZ</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/16/warriors-boost-nrl-stocks-in-nz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/16/warriors-boost-nrl-stocks-in-nz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NZ's participation in the NRL is looking healthier and healthier, with the Warriors now shaping up as serious finals contenders, writes Jeff Wall.]]></description>
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		<title>Talking up the Australian Rugby Championship</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/11/talking-up-the-australian-rugby-championship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/11/talking-up-the-australian-rugby-championship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you talk up a new rugby competition in which there’s not much interest? Talk about new rules instead.]]></description>
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