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	<title>Crikey &#187; Treasury</title>
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		<title>When minimal accountability and mind-numbing tedium reign in Canberra</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/when-minimal-accountability-and-mind-numbing-tedium-reign-in-canberra/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/when-minimal-accountability-and-mind-numbing-tedium-reign-in-canberra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget estimates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helen coonan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supplementary Budget Estimates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Senators are conducting Supplementary Budget Estimates for the whole week, rather than sitting.  For the most part it’s a colossal waste of time and money.

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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Treasury knew about my very poor health, by Godwin Grech</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/04/treasury-knew-about-my-very-poor-health-by-godwin-grech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/04/treasury-knew-about-my-very-poor-health-by-godwin-grech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Godwin Grech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utegate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Public official at the centre of the Utegate scandal, Godwin Grech, says that Treasury were well aware of his significant and ongoing health issues.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>How media&#8217;s myopia hurts economic analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/21/crikey-says-46/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/21/crikey-says-46/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Economic commentary in Australia is based on numbers of momentary significance, numbers which are loaded with meaning in the few minutes after their release and then promptly forgotten.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/21/crikey-says-46/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The good economic news just keeps on coming</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/09/the-good-economic-news-just-keeps-on-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/09/the-good-economic-news-just-keeps-on-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment figures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an economy coping remarkably well with a collapse in its terms of trade and a collapse in business lending.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/09/the-good-economic-news-just-keeps-on-coming/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Media returns to business as usual</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/24/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-40/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/24/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks-40/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Legislative Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tabloids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Things are returning to normal in the tabloids after the excitement of Utegate, with rugby league and sex back on the front page.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Godwin Grech: the loneliest man in the world</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/godwin-grech-the-loneliest-man-in-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/godwin-grech-the-loneliest-man-in-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Martine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dickensian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Godwin Grech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Grech, a man of almost Dickensian visage and name, chose absolute honesty in talking about the Utegate affair, an approach that, unless you’re very confident in your own evasive skills, is probably wisest.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/22/godwin-grech-the-loneliest-man-in-the-world/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The little recession that couldn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/03/the-little-recession-that-couldnt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/03/the-little-recession-that-couldnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudd government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the Government and Treasury, this is as close to vindication of its stimulus approach as it will get. And all thanks to 0.4%, in black, rather than red.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/03/the-little-recession-that-couldnt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Back off Hockey: Treasury stands by its forecasts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/03/back-off-hockey-treasury-stands-by-its-forecasts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/03/back-off-hockey-treasury-stands-by-its-forecasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Gruen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Treasury has blunted the Opposition’s attack on the validity of the Government’s Budget forecasts.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/03/back-off-hockey-treasury-stands-by-its-forecasts/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Koukoulas: don&#8217;t mess with Treasury forecasts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/14/koukoulas-dont-mess-with-treasury-forecasts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/14/koukoulas-dont-mess-with-treasury-forecasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 03:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Koukoulas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Henry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=58325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's a mug's game to quibble with the Treasury forecasts that underpin the Budget revenue and outlays estimates.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/14/koukoulas-dont-mess-with-treasury-forecasts/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Treasury&#8217;s positive outlook is a false vision</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/keen-swans-postive-outlook-is-a-false-vision/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/keen-swans-postive-outlook-is-a-false-vision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 03:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09 analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=57988</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A downturn that the Budget papers describe ad nauseam as "the most severe since the Great Depression" is expected to be over faster than the recession. So which is it? asks <strong>Steve Keen</strong>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/keen-swans-postive-outlook-is-a-false-vision/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Berg: Never mind the deficit, look at the spending</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/berg-never-mind-the-deficit-look-at-the-spending/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/berg-never-mind-the-deficit-look-at-the-spending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 03:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09 analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Henry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=57986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a weird - almost creepy - sense of confidence surrounding Wayne Swan’s second budget, writes <b>Chris Berg</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/berg-never-mind-the-deficit-look-at-the-spending/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Budget tries to sell unattainable growth rates. Why?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/hewson-assuming-unattainable-growth-rates-to-fool-the-electorate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/hewson-assuming-unattainable-growth-rates-to-fool-the-electorate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 03:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09 analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=57974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About the only certainty that I get from this Budget is that our economic circumstances will not unfold as forecast, writes <strong>John Hewson</strong>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/13/hewson-assuming-unattainable-growth-rates-to-fool-the-electorate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Budget backdrop is chaos and crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/12/kohler-budget-backdrop-is-chaos-and-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/12/kohler-budget-backdrop-is-chaos-and-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 04:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Kohler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=57364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The usual Treasury imperative to restrain desperate politicians, still as great as ever, is tempered by a need to be careful not to depress everyone.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/12/kohler-budget-backdrop-is-chaos-and-crisis/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Budget to RBA: you complete me</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/11/budget-to-rba-you-complete-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/11/budget-to-rba-you-complete-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 22:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget 09]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget Countdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudd government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=56634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Reserve Bank forecasts complete the likely picture that will emerge on Budget night next Tuesday. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/11/budget-to-rba-you-complete-me/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd and Treasury vindicated as unemployment falls</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/07/rudd-and-treasury-vindicated-as-unemployment-falls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/07/rudd-and-treasury-vindicated-as-unemployment-falls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 03:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=56263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Behind the rise in employment -- revealed today -- is a deliberate strategy taken by a Government that has consistently moved earlier than expected to deal with the impacts of the financial crisis.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/07/rudd-and-treasury-vindicated-as-unemployment-falls/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The brave new world of disinflation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/20/the-brave-new-world-of-disinflation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/20/the-brave-new-world-of-disinflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disinflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Producer Price Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=52184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Get set for a burst of disinflation as the much forecast fall in price pressures starts turning up in official statistics.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/20/the-brave-new-world-of-disinflation/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The banks&#8217; time will come</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/08/the-banks-time-will-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/08/the-banks-time-will-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first home owners grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=50790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Banks might think it is very clever to protect their profit margins by not passing on the cut in official interest rates but their time will come. Treasury officials and politicians have long memories.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Greenhouse niggard to review treasury ETS modelling</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/08/greenhouse-niggard-to-review-treasury-ets-modelling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/08/greenhouse-niggard-to-review-treasury-ets-modelling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coalition party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Climate action opponent Brian Fisher should have automatically been excluded from any “independent” review of the modelling, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/08/greenhouse-niggard-to-review-treasury-ets-modelling/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;You went too far Malcolm.&#8221; Turnbull and the Oz c-ck it up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/22/you-went-too-far-malcolm-turnbull-and-the-oz-c-ck-it-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/22/you-went-too-far-malcolm-turnbull-and-the-oz-c-ck-it-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ken Henry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turnbull’s Parliamentary skills are still a work in progress, and that his frontbench lacks either the experience or forthrightness to rein him in, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Julie Bishop&#8217;s gaffes taken to a new level</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/24/julie-bishops-gaffes-taken-to-a-new-level/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/24/julie-bishops-gaffes-taken-to-a-new-level/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Albanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even the suggestion of incompetence will be enough to put Julie Bishop under plenty of pressure, when it’s Wayne Swan who should be in the spotlight, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>GST and fuel excise: A taxing argument</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/26/gst-and-fuel-excise-a-taxing-argument/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/26/gst-and-fuel-excise-a-taxing-argument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fuel prices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time there’s a new problem for the Government it gets whacked onto the tax review. Now it’s an investigation of the interaction of the GST and fuel excise, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Did the credit-crunch hit revenue? Don&#8217;t believe it for a second</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/13/did-the-credit-crunch-hit-revenue-dont-believe-it-for-a-second/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/13/did-the-credit-crunch-hit-revenue-dont-believe-it-for-a-second/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget 08]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wayne Swan’s claims of a credit crunch hitting revenue are pure bunkum, writes <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>How wrong will Treasury be this year?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/13/how-wrong-will-treasury-be-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/13/how-wrong-will-treasury-be-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treasury has an appalling overall record in predicting the budget surpluses. How will they do this time? asks <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Not a good election to win?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/12/04/not-a-good-election-to-win/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/12/04/not-a-good-election-to-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wayne Swan was sworn in yesterday as Treasurer. Swan has said that dealing with inflationary pressures in the economy will be the government’s "number one priority". With inflation rising and the US heading for a possible recession, the prospects of a second Labor term depends on how Rudd and Swan handle what happens next.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>You want the purse strings? Questions for the Treasurer&#8217;s debate</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/29/you-want-the-purse-strings-questions-for-the-treasurers-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/29/you-want-the-purse-strings-questions-for-the-treasurers-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chief economist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It might not be in prime-time. It probably won't have a worm. And the audience will be filled with finance and political journalists. But don't let that stop you from watching tomorrow's debate between the current reigning title-holder, Peter Costello, and the fast-rising challenger, Wayne Swan.]]></description>
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