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	<title>Crikey &#187; WA</title>
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		<title>WA chief justice tells it like it is</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/wa-chief-justice-tells-it-like-it-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/wa-chief-justice-tells-it-like-it-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wayne martin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Western Australian Chief Justice Wayne Martin’s refreshingly honest view of the world, delivered to a criminology conference in Perth yesterday will fortify his growing reputation as perhaps the most progressive leader of a court in the nation, writes <b>Greg Barns</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rio&#8217;s looming union nightmare</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/10/rios-looming-union-nightmare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/10/rios-looming-union-nightmare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CFMEU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Tinto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work choices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rio Tinto is refusing to enter into wage negotiations with the union that represents some of the train drivers at its rich iron ore operations in the Pilbara, writes <b>Nicholas Way</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>How close did WA Nats come to falling in with Labor?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/15/how-close-did-wa-nats-come-to-falling-in-with-labor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/15/how-close-did-wa-nats-come-to-falling-in-with-labor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brendon grylls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nationals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State & Territory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How close did the WA Nationals really come to an historic deal to keep Labor in government? asks <b>Poll bludger William Bowe</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nationals resurgent after a weird weekend on unwanted hustings</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/nationals-resurgent-after-a-weird-weekend-on-unwanted-hustings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/nationals-resurgent-after-a-weird-weekend-on-unwanted-hustings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state goverment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Playing kingmaker at a State level opens up vast pork-barrelling possibilities, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>WA poll 1: Conservatives should stitch a winning patchwork</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/wa-poll-1-conservatives-should-stitch-a-winning-patchwork/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/wa-poll-1-conservatives-should-stitch-a-winning-patchwork/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Barnett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative politics has a new hero in Colin Barnett, who in just five weeks has transformed the WA Liberal Party from feather-duster to rooster, writes <b>Poll Bludger William Bowe</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where do they find state politicians anyway?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/where-do-they-find-state-politicians-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/where-do-they-find-state-politicians-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Kennett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morris Iemma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Rees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state premiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s probably too much to ask for political courage and vision, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>WA election gets down and dirty &#8212; no surprises there</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/29/wa-election-gets-down-and-dirty-no-surprises-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/29/wa-election-gets-down-and-dirty-no-surprises-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaigns and elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With so much ammunition available to both sides, it comes as no surprise to find the WA election campaign dominated by negative advertising, writes <b>Poll Bludger</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Labor &#8216;cr-pping itself&#8221; over WA polling</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/22/labor-cr-pping-itself-over-wa-polling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/22/labor-cr-pping-itself-over-wa-polling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Carpenter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian labor party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal party of australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Expectations that Alan Carpenter’s government will be comfortably returned in Western Australia are dying hard, writes <b>Poll Bludger</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The WA Liberals: no place for a woman</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/18/the-wa-liberals-no-place-for-a-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/18/the-wa-liberals-no-place-for-a-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upcoming election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When nominations closed on Friday, it was revealed the Liberals had managed a grand total of six female lower house candidates out of 58, writes <b>William Bowe</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>WA poll: Barnett falters on daylight and the shops</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/15/wa-poll-barnett-falters-on-daylight-and-the-shops/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/15/wa-poll-barnett-falters-on-daylight-and-the-shops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Western Australian Liberal Party stumbled badly on two issues this week, writes <b>Noel Crichton-Browne</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/15/wa-poll-barnett-falters-on-daylight-and-the-shops/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>First NT now WA &#8212; hot vote in 08</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/first-nt-now-wa-hot-vote-in-08/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/first-nt-now-wa-hot-vote-in-08/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State & Territory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody loves an early election, writes <b>William Bowe</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>WA part II: this election is Barnett&#8217;s to win. Or lose</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/wa-part-ii-this-election-is-barnetts-to-win-or-lose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/wa-part-ii-this-election-is-barnetts-to-win-or-lose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wa liberals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The people of Western Australian just want good government, writes <b>Noel Crichton-Browne</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>WA part I: Libs are underdogs, but backable</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/wa-part-i-libs-are-underdogs-but-backable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/wa-part-i-libs-are-underdogs-but-backable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The timing is cynical, and the odds are stacked against the opposition, but don't write the Liberals off in WA, writes <b>William Bowe</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mackerras: the WA redistribution that grew</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/mackerras-the-wa-redistribution-that-grew/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/mackerras-the-wa-redistribution-that-grew/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Electoral Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State & Territory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA['I assumed it would be a pretty minor affair but I could not have been proved more wrong,' writes <b>Malcolm Mackerras</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crichton-Browne: Buswell&#8217;s departure a tragedy. Sniff.</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/crichton-browne-buswells-departure-a-tragedy-sniff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/crichton-browne-buswells-departure-a-tragedy-sniff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[troy buswell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The departure of Troy Buswell leaves the WA Liberal Party in search of its fifth leader in three years, writes former Liberal Senator and WA President <b>Noel Crichton Browne</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/crichton-browne-buswells-departure-a-tragedy-sniff/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richard Farmer&#8217;s political bite-sized meaty chunks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/04/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/04/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Forrest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State & Territory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meaty snippets from the home of government, <b>Richard Farmer</b> writes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/25/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/25/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Big W delivered a very, very large broadsheet sized glossy catalogue to my home on Wednesday, heavily promoting a 42&#8221; Sanyo plasma TV for $794. On arrival at the store yesterday morning at 9am, on the first day of the sale, I was told by a smiling shop assistant that all of the TVs had sold out [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>WA gas worker: Fark, we ran for our lives</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/19/wa-gas-worker-fark-we-ran-for-our-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/19/wa-gas-worker-fark-we-ran-for-our-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of last week's WA gas explosion at Varanus Island, Crikey has received two illuminating insider accounts of the energy situation in WA (complete with pictures). 


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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Are Perth&#8217;s silver stocks low?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/17/are-perths-silver-stocks-low/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/17/are-perths-silver-stocks-low/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A storm appears to be brewing around The Perth Mint, with speculation that the Mint’s precious metals pool has run dry, writes <b>Lachlan Taylor</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/12/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/12/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medibank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you us seen the new WA Today website&#8201;&#8212;&#8201;Fairfax&#8217;s new portal on the West? Those of us on the West Coast were looking forward to someone setting up shop in opposition to the single limp daily we suffer at the moment. Unfortunately what we got was SMH content with a thin veneer of local stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The lost billions from WA gas crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/10/the-lost-billions-from-wa-gas-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/10/the-lost-billions-from-wa-gas-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minara resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newcrest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The full extent of Western Australia’s gas crisis is starting to emerge with all sorts of tales of woe ranging from production cut backs at huge resource projects to Perth hotels not being able to provide clean sheets, writes <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>FuelWatch = $7.50 per working family a year</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/27/fuelwatch-750-per-working-family-a-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/27/fuelwatch-750-per-working-family-a-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petrol prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with petrol politics is that the numbers involved are simply enormous. <b>Possum Comitatus</b> looks at FuelWatch and does the number crunching for you.]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Farmer&#8217;s political bite-sized meaty chunks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/26/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/26/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lobbyists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paul lennon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meaty snippets from the home of government plus the daily reality check and the pick of other people's political coverage. <b>Richard Farmer writes</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Crikey Says</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/19/crikey-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/19/crikey-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[troy buswell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's early days, but this ad from the weekend papers will probably rate as the week's wildest act of unfettered optimisim.]]></description>
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		<title>Troy Buswell the victim of a quokka smear</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/troy-buswell-the-victim-of-a-quokka-smear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/troy-buswell-the-victim-of-a-quokka-smear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[troy buswell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Troy Buswell's quokka denial is a story about the slide in standards of journalism -- and how ridiculous conjecture will now stick to him, writes <b>Possum Comitatus</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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