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	<title>Crikey &#187; Sri Lanka</title>
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		<title>Report on Sri Lanka war crimes exonerates SL government</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/21/report-on-sri-lanka-war-crimes-exonerates-sl-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/21/report-on-sri-lanka-war-crimes-exonerates-sl-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Balibo Five]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahinda Rajapaksa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sri Lankan government of Mahinda Rajapaksa has worked out how to get away with murder.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>4 Corners Sri Lanka documentary provokes mixed response</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/05/4-corners-sri-lanka-documentary-provokes-mixed-response/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/05/4-corners-sri-lanka-documentary-provokes-mixed-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tamil Tigers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war crimes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=233490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some local Sri Lankan communities are claiming last night’s airing of Channel 4’s highly graphic documentary “Sri Lankas Killing Fields” on 4 Corners provides an opportunity for a renewed conversation despite a highly varied response.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Slide night: baby elephants take a bath</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/back-in-a-bit/2011/05/12/slide-night-baby-elephants-take-a-bath/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/back-in-a-bit/2011/05/12/slide-night-baby-elephants-take-a-bath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 22:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo galleries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHOTO GALLERY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=223027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Opened in 1975, Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage is now Sri Lanka’s best known and most popular tourist destination. <em>Crikey</em> reader <b>Beryce Nelson</b> was there, taking happy snaps for <em>Back in a Bit's</em> 'slide night.' ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The rain in Sri Lanka falls, well, everywhere</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/back-in-a-bit/2011/02/10/scott-vs-the-rain/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/back-in-a-bit/2011/02/10/scott-vs-the-rain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extreme weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Drenched to the bone after a day cycling around in the rain and leading his bike across flooded roads with water up to his knees, <b>Scott Bridges</b> offers his misty travelogue through Sri Lanka.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why it&#8217;s not safe to go home: one reluctant Tamil&#8217;s story</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/24/why-its-not-safe-to-go-home-one-reluctant-tamils-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/24/why-its-not-safe-to-go-home-one-reluctant-tamils-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tamil community]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=187485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In July the Australian government announced that, with the resumption of its processing of Tamil asylum applications, many would face deportation in line with its view that conditions had improved in Sri Lanka, writes freelance journalist <b>Catherine Wilson</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>18 months on, picking up the pieces of postwar Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/18/18-months-on-picking-up-the-pieces-of-postwar-sri-lanka/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/18/18-months-on-picking-up-the-pieces-of-postwar-sri-lanka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tamil community]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=185202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Nick Johns-Wickberg </b> interviews two foreign aid workers who, in dealing with Sri Lanka recently, understand better than most the serious issues that country is facing.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Marr: Should ministers make life or death decisions?</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/detention-system-hinges-on-high-courts-decision-on-boat-people-20101110-17nmo.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/detention-system-hinges-on-high-courts-decision-on-boat-people-20101110-17nmo.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=184865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Canberra waits nervously for today's result to the High Court case involving the processing of two Sri Lankan asylum seekers. It could fundamentally affect how refugees are processed in Australia, explains <b>David Marr</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>What Australia can learn from Sri Lanka about &#8216;security&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/22/what-australia-can-learn-from-sri-lanka-about-security/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/22/what-australia-can-learn-from-sri-lanka-about-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[terrorist activities]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=173594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The cream of Australia’s security establishment are gathering for their annual shindig, the "Safeguarding Australia Summit", writes Jake Lynch, associate professor and director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Aid workers will face terror charges after new US court ruling</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/22/aid-workers-will-face-terror-charges-after-new-us-court-ruling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/22/aid-workers-will-face-terror-charges-after-new-us-court-ruling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanitarian aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pkk]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=147497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bringing warring terrorist groups to the negotiating table and using them to help deliver aid is a desirable means of reducing conflict. But a US Supreme Court ruling has just made it a whole lot harder.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s tougher refugee line could criminalise humanitarian aid</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/08/rudds-tougher-refugee-line-could-criminalise-humanitarian-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/08/rudds-tougher-refugee-line-could-criminalise-humanitarian-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=144508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In true post 9-11 politics style, the Australian government is going after anyone to look tough and in control on refugees. And it's put humanitarian aid in the firing line, writes <b>Brami Jegan</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/08/rudds-tougher-refugee-line-could-criminalise-humanitarian-aid/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tamils vote for independence &#8212; and will vote against Labor</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/22/tamils-vote-for-independence-and-will-vote-against-labor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/22/tamils-vote-for-independence-and-will-vote-against-labor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antony Loewenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=132240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australian's Tamil community want an independent homeland in Sri Lanka. And they want respect from a federal government here that is now denying visa applications to their people.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Arbiter of asylum claims casts doubt on Rudd&#8217;s application freeze</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/13/arbiter-of-asylum-claims-casts-doubt-on-rudds-application-freeze/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/13/arbiter-of-asylum-claims-casts-doubt-on-rudds-application-freeze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign minister stephen smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration minister Chris Evans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refugee Review Tribunal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=130068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Foreign minister Stephen Smith’s claim over the weekend that conditions are improving in Sri Lanka is a sweeping generalisation that ignores the reality for each person. The Tamil Tigers are still a threat.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd betrays Labor</title>
		<link>http://newmatilda.com/2010/04/12/rudd-caves-refugees</link>
		<comments>http://newmatilda.com/2010/04/12/rudd-caves-refugees#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=130045</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The supposedly progressive, compassionate principles of the Labor party have been completely ditched by Kevin Rudd with his new immigration policy. What a disappoint Rudd's government has become, writes <b>Ben Eltham</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd, despite handing out health biscuits, has hard calls to make</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/12/mungo-rudd-despite-handing-out-health-biscuits-has-hard-calls-to-make/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/12/mungo-rudd-despite-handing-out-health-biscuits-has-hard-calls-to-make/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mungo MacCallum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=129644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd has finally admitted what everyone else realised some time ago: fixing the health system is going to cost a huge amount of money and it’s no good pretending otherwise.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Immoral? Evil? Maybe, but that&#8217;s politics for you&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/12/immoral-evil-maybe-but-thats-politics-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/12/immoral-evil-maybe-but-thats-politics-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=129697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government had no alternative but to respond to the political reality of surging boat arrivals. And it will go further if it needs to.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>61</slash:comments>
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		<title>AFP flying close to the wind &#8212; again &#8212; on Tamil case</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/07/afp-flying-close-to-the-wind-again-on-tamil-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/07/afp-flying-close-to-the-wind-again-on-tamil-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=128617</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In pursuing a case against three Australians of Sri Lankan Tamil background for supplying funds to the LTTE, the AFP relied on information provided or vetted by the Sri Lankan government, writes <b>Bruce Haigh</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/07/afp-flying-close-to-the-wind-again-on-tamil-case/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Would Tony Do?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/06/what-would-tony-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/06/what-would-tony-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=128193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Score eggs kids!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australia rolls out the welcome mat for war criminal retirees</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/01/australia-rolls-out-the-welcome-mat-for-war-criminal-retirees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/01/australia-rolls-out-the-welcome-mat-for-war-criminal-retirees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antony Loewenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarath Fonseka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil Tigers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=113090</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If Canberra fails to take its global responsibilities seriously, another chapter will be added to the already dismal history Australia has of allowing sanctuary to killers, brutes and generals. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richardson: Elections matter &#8212; just ask the Tamils</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2010/01/26/elections-matter-%E2%80%93-just-ask-the-tamils/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2010/01/26/elections-matter-%E2%80%93-just-ask-the-tamils/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tamils]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=112057</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If more Tamils had voted in the last Sri Lankan election, there might have been no renewal of the war, no large-scale human rights abuses, and even no boatloads of refugees off the Australian coast, says <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Sparrow misses the point about ASIO, screening asylum seekers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/14/sparrow-misses-the-point-about-asio-screening-asylum-seekers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/14/sparrow-misses-the-point-about-asio-screening-asylum-seekers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil Tigers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=109579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even if people disagree with ASIO, some security screening of those entering Australia, whether as refugees, immigrants or visitors, is clearly required, writes <b>Neil James</b> of the Australian Defence Association.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/14/sparrow-misses-the-point-about-asio-screening-asylum-seekers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Risky refugees trap Rudd</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/asio-rejects-four-viking-tamils/story-e6frg6nf-1225818220993</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/asio-rejects-four-viking-tamils/story-e6frg6nf-1225818220993#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oceanic viking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudd government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil Tigers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamils]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=108993</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Four of the Tamil asylum seekers from the Oceanic Viking kerfuffle have been rejected for security reasons, putting the government in a difficult conundrum. They can't send them back, can't give them Australian visas and its unlikely any other country will want them. What now?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/asio-rejects-four-viking-tamils/story-e6frg6nf-1225818220993/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A confused government’s way forward</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/a-confused-government%e2%80%99s-way-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/a-confused-government%e2%80%99s-way-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/a-confused-government%e2%80%99s-way-forward/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Trying to turn the Howard-era foreign policy sow’s ear into a Rudd government silk purse is doomed to policy failure, writes <b>Damien Kingsbury</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/a-confused-government%e2%80%99s-way-forward/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>What they&#8217;re fleeing in Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/world/when-its-easier-to-flee-than-return-home-20091112-icj9.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/world/when-its-easier-to-flee-than-return-home-20091112-icj9.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[displaced people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamils]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Matt Wade</b> visits Sri Lanka and discovers why the Australian government faces such a difficult battle persuading asylum seekers to return there: war-torn villages surrounded by landmines, a lack of jobs, medical care and education.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.smh.com.au/world/when-its-easier-to-flee-than-return-home-20091112-icj9.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceanic viking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smuggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.smh.com.au/national/secret-plan-to-boost-migrants-from-sri-lanka-20091111-i9zs.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Best to stay on the boat and avoid Indonesia&#8217;s corruption</title>
		<link>http://newmatilda.com/2009/10/30/indonesian-justice-not-same-australian-justice</link>
		<comments>http://newmatilda.com/2009/10/30/indonesian-justice-not-same-australian-justice#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=96387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Indonesia has a notoriously corrupt justice system, yet we have agreed to send innocent people seeking asylum in Australia there. <b>Angela Dewan</b> explores the overcrowded, under funded and crooked Indonesian jails.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://newmatilda.com/2009/10/30/indonesian-justice-not-same-australian-justice/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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