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	<title>Crikey &#187; WorkChoices</title>
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		<title>Turnbull exhumes rotting corpse of WorkChoices</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/14/turnbull-exhumes-the-rotting-corpse-of-workchoices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/14/turnbull-exhumes-the-rotting-corpse-of-workchoices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian workplace agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just in case the Government might run out of attack points in Parliament this week, Malcolm Turnbull has decided to exhume the rotting corpse of WorkChoices to see how badly it smelt.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Did Harper&#8217;s Christianity influence his wage decision?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/08/rundle-did-harpers-christianity-influence-his-wage-decision/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/08/rundle-did-harpers-christianity-influence-his-wage-decision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Pay Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal minimum wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does Harper's Christianity shape his idea of how recovery should proceed?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fair Pay: the perils of politicians appointing &#8216;independent&#8217; experts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/08/fair-pay-the-perils-of-politicians-appointing-independent-experts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/08/fair-pay-the-perils-of-politicians-appointing-independent-experts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Pay Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal minimum wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Fair Pay Commission is a classic example of when politicians appoint independent experts, things often don’t turn out exactly the way they planned.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>A mining boom for mining companies&#8230; not for anyone else</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/10/a-mining-boom-for-mining-companies-not-for-anyone-else/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/10/a-mining-boom-for-mining-companies-not-for-anyone-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Tinto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New research suggests the benefits of the mining boom were far smaller than believed.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Liberal mates milked millions from Howard&#8217;s ad bonanza</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/13/liberal-mates-milked-millions-from-howards-ad-bonanza/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/13/liberal-mates-milked-millions-from-howards-ad-bonanza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Commonwealth, you can’t use taxpayers’ money without appropriate authority and you can’t spend it without making sure taxpayers are getting the best value for money, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>It’s time to redefine success</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/09/its-time-to-redefine-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/09/its-time-to-redefine-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Brands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a century of badgering from pinkos and greenies, captains of industry are grudgingly starting to accept that profits are not everything, writes <b>Peter Vogel</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Costello overlooks his own unpopularity in memoir</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/11/costello-overlooks-his-own-unpopularity-in-memoir/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/11/costello-overlooks-his-own-unpopularity-in-memoir/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Keating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Costello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Costello’s argument is that if John Howard had managed the transition issue better, Prime Minister Costello would now be calling the shots, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>There are two million Australians out of work. That&#8217;s the truth.</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/12/there-are-two-million-australians-out-of-work-thats-the-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/12/there-are-two-million-australians-out-of-work-thats-the-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The official unemployment figure are bunk, writes <b>Marcus L'Estrange</b>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Heather Ridout, the 21st member of Rudd&#8217;s Cabinet</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/12/heather-ridout-the-21st-member-of-rudds-cabinet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/12/heather-ridout-the-21st-member-of-rudds-cabinet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heather Ridout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Julia Gillard’s first task as Deputy Prime Minister back in December was to address the Australian Industry Group. Since then, the AIG's CEO Heather Ridout has scored a number of important Government gigs, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/12/heather-ridout-the-21st-member-of-rudds-cabinet/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richard Farmer&#8217;s political bite-sized meaty chunks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/08/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/08/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></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</b> writes.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/08/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mungo: Thank you and good night, John Howard</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/12/03/mungo-thank-you-and-good-night-john-howard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/12/03/mungo-thank-you-and-good-night-john-howard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chinese ancestry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyoto Protocol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white picket fence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you have any doubt that the election of a Rudd Labor government has changed the country, consider this: a year ago, did you imagine that the Prime Minister would be sending an openly gay woman of Chinese ancestry to Bali, to ratify the Kyoto protocol on Australia’s behalf? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nelson vs Turnbull: A battle on many fronts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/30/nelson-vs-turnbull-a-battle-on-many-fronts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/30/nelson-vs-turnbull-a-battle-on-many-fronts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Minchin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right wingers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fighting Kevin Rudd and balancing progressives and conservatives within his party will be tough enough for Nelson. But he will find himself shadow-boxing with Turnbull as well, writes David MacCormack.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Generational change Coalition-style</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/30/generational-change-coalition-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/30/generational-change-coalition-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian workplace agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mr turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So yesterday it was not a 50 year-old Peter Costello who became Leader of the Opposition but the 49 year-old Dr Brendan Nelson, with the 51 year-old Julie Bishop as his offsider. Not much sign of generational change there, writes Richard Farmer.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Howard Government&#8217;s record of political appointments</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/29/the-howard-governments-record-of-political-appointments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/29/the-howard-governments-record-of-political-appointments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Industrial Relations Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christopher pearson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal magistrates court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The propensity to make controversial appointments to positions of authority in public agencies was one of the more contentious habits of the Howard government, writes Rebecca Harrison.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mungo: The dubious legacy of John Winston Howard</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/27/mungo-the-dubious-legacy-of-john-winston-howard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/27/mungo-the-dubious-legacy-of-john-winston-howard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grab bag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john winston howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[this meant that]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Winston Howard was Australia’s second longest-serving Prime Minister, presiding almost unchallenged over the political landscape for well over a decade. His time in government can not be dismissed lightly. However it can be dismissed heavily, so here goes, writes Mungo MacCallum.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Errington: Unity and policy the challenge for Howard&#8217;s successor</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/25/errington-unity-and-policy-the-challenge-for-howards-successor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/25/errington-unity-and-policy-the-challenge-for-howards-successor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that opposition leaders who take the party leadership from a defeated prime minister never make it to the top job won't stop some ambitious Liberals putting up their hand this week. And whoever ends up in the leadership will have a difficult time, writes Wayne Errington.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/25/errington-unity-and-policy-the-challenge-for-howards-successor/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>And the new Senate powerbrokers are &#8230; the Nationals</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/22/and-the-new-senate-powerbrokers-are-the-nationals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/22/and-the-new-senate-powerbrokers-are-the-nationals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[double dissolution election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor senators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lock stock and barrel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Xenophon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barnaby Joyce got jumped on earlier in the week when he told <i>The Australian</i>: "I really am struggling now to work out how Labor’s stance is that different from WorkChoices". But why aren’t his other comments from the same story being examined more closely? Christian Kerr investigates.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>MacCormack: The electoral gods must be crazy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/22/maccormack-the-electoral-gods-must-be-crazy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/22/maccormack-the-electoral-gods-must-be-crazy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[australian waters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[history repeats itself]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The electoral gods have a wicked sense of humour, don't they? They seem to have thoroughly embraced a version of Marx's maxim that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce, writes David MacCormack. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reality check: Honey, I doomed the universe</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/22/reality-check-honey-i-doomed-the-universe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/22/reality-check-honey-i-doomed-the-universe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything that can go wrong with the John Howard election campaign is going wrong so it would not be surprising to learn that the astronomers who may have unwittingly hastened the end of the universe by simply looking at it were using a Liberal Party telescope, writes Richard Farmer.]]></description>
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		<title>Comitatus: Andrew Robb, the Google Assassin</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/21/comitatus-andrew-robb-the-google-assassin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/21/comitatus-andrew-robb-the-google-assassin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alp member]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assassin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coalition issue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Andrew Robb first went to the Google homepage in search of ALP candidate bios, did he press “Advanced Search”, or did he just go straight to the button marked “I’m Feeling Lucky”, muses Possum Comitatus.]]></description>
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		<title>Abjorensen: Too many variables to be sure of a Ruddslide</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/21/abjorensen-too-many-variables-to-be-sure-of-a-ruddslide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/21/abjorensen-too-many-variables-to-be-sure-of-a-ruddslide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a persuasively convincing imitation, the Howard government isn’t dead in the water yet. There are simply too many variables to be absolutely cocky about a large Rudd victory, writes Norman Abjorensen.]]></description>
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		<title>Government advertising: What happened to WorkChoices?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/20/government-advertising-what-happened-to-workchoices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/20/government-advertising-what-happened-to-workchoices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ad blitz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s release of federal government advertising figures for 2006-07 showed that the Coalition’s spending on "advertising campaigns" continued unabated during the last financial year. But the total – just under $200 million – wasn’t big enough to set a new record or to grab page 1 treatment in today’s papers.]]></description>
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		<title>Kevin Rudd, growth and the &#8216;you too&#8217; campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/19/kevin-rudd-growth-and-the-you-too-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/19/kevin-rudd-growth-and-the-you-too-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not the narrowing, but nor is it annihilation. It is an election in Australia, writes Christian Kerr.]]></description>
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		<title>New Leadership &#8211; Fresh ideas for the future and so on&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/15/new-leadership-fresh-ideas-for-the-future-and-so-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/15/new-leadership-fresh-ideas-for-the-future-and-so-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Therese Rein]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd articulates his vision for the future.]]></description>
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		<title>Abjorensen: Barnaby Joyce, Labor minister?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/15/abjorensen-barnaby-joyce-labor-minister/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/11/15/abjorensen-barnaby-joyce-labor-minister/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assuming that Labor wins government on November 24, it will still face the prospect of a hostile Senate, writes Norman Abjorensen.]]></description>
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