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	<title>Crikey &#187; WorkChoices</title>
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		<title>Essential: no to uranium exports to India, yes to mining tax</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/21/essential-no-to-uranium-exports-to-india-yes-to-mining-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/21/essential-no-to-uranium-exports-to-india-yes-to-mining-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon pricing package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MRRT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uranium exports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Voters back the mining tax but oppose uranium exports to India, today's Essential Report shows. And voters are less concerned about a return to Workchoices.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>The long tradition of union &#8216;interference&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/09/the-long-tradition-of-union-interference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/09/the-long-tradition-of-union-interference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construction industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workplace Relations Act]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=258047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Advocates of IR reform claim unions traditionally haven't been allowed to "interfere" in issues such as contracting out. Wrong.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s OECD productivity freefall</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/20/australias-oecd-productivity-freefall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/20/australias-oecd-productivity-freefall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heather Ridout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labour productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OECD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=247932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia isn't the only country grappling with labour productivity problems. But ours got a lot worse during Workchoices.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: Gillard down again, but support for offshoring, pokies reform</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/12/essential-gillard-down-again-but-support-for-offshoring-pokies-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/12/essential-gillard-down-again-but-support-for-offshoring-pokies-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poker machine reforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=246422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Julia Gillard has hot a new low in today's Essential Report. But there's support for the government in asylum seeker processing and pokies.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/12/essential-gillard-down-again-but-support-for-offshoring-pokies-reform/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Searching for truth on productivity</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/07/searching-for-truth-on-productivity-among-the-ir-spin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/07/searching-for-truth-on-productivity-among-the-ir-spin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grattan Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IR reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=245441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For journalists willing to do some work, it's easy to check whether the link being made between IR deregulation and labour productivity stands up.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/07/searching-for-truth-on-productivity-among-the-ir-spin/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>The return of protectionism: the gang&#8217;s all here</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/30/the-return-of-protectionism-the-gangs-all-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/30/the-return-of-protectionism-the-gangs-all-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Oliver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heather Ridout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make or break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Howes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=243878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Protectionism is alive and well and has strong allies in the public policy arena.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/30/the-return-of-protectionism-the-gangs-all-here/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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		<title>Once again, taxpayers pick up the tab to advertise to themselves</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/18/carbon-tax-government-ads-julia-gillard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/18/carbon-tax-government-ads-julia-gillard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsay Tanner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Keating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steve bracks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=236079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. The Gillard government now has to defend not only its carbon pricing plan, but also its apparent hypocrisy in spending some $25 million of taxpayers' money to promote it. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/18/carbon-tax-government-ads-julia-gillard/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>The WorkChoices reincarnated podcast</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/30/the-workchoices-reincarnated-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/30/the-workchoices-reincarnated-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canberra Calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter reith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resources boom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=232693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, Crikey’s Canberra Correspondent Bernard Keane and Crikey editor Sophie Black discuss the return of WorkChoices, Peter Reith's failed Liberal Party presidency bid and Bob Brown's report into the foreign ownership of Australia's mining sector.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/30/the-workchoices-reincarnated-podcast/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Liberals in search of the case for IR reform</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/29/in-search-of-the-case-for-ir-reform-what-did-workchoices-accomplish/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/29/in-search-of-the-case-for-ir-reform-what-did-workchoices-accomplish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial disputes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wage costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=232182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since IR reformers won't explain why we need it, we've looked at what WorkChoices accomplished. It wasn't much.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/29/in-search-of-the-case-for-ir-reform-what-did-workchoices-accomplish/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>So&#8230; just why do we need IR reform again?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/18/so-just-why-do-we-need-ir-reform-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/18/so-just-why-do-we-need-ir-reform-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACTU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=178774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We're told time and again that we need more IR reform. But no one ever says why.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/18/so-just-why-do-we-need-ir-reform-again/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>72</slash:comments>
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		<title>WorkChoices zombie rises</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/21/back-from-the-dead-coalition-ballot-proposal-goes-far-beyond-workchoices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/21/back-from-the-dead-coalition-ballot-proposal-goes-far-beyond-workchoices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Keane on the Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=155372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Contradicting his own commitment not to change IR legislation isn't the only problem with Tony Abbott's savings proposal on union ballots. It goes much much further than Workchoices did.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/21/back-from-the-dead-coalition-ballot-proposal-goes-far-beyond-workchoices/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>76</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s amateur hour at Tony&#8217;s house</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/abbott-waves-white-flag-on-labour-reform/story-fn59niix-1225894775175</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/abbott-waves-white-flag-on-labour-reform/story-fn59niix-1225894775175#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey Intern</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labour market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=155215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Four days into the federal election campaign and IR is the topic of the day. But it seems that Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and his party have been caught on the hop, appearing like amateurs and willing to give up a generational-long commitment by the Liberal Party to labour market reform, writes <b>Paul Kelly</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Keane: dead and buried, but the Work Choices zombie dogs Abbott</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/20/keane-dead-and-buried-but-the-workchoices-zombie-dogs-abbott/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/20/keane-dead-and-buried-but-the-workchoices-zombie-dogs-abbott/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian liberal party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Keane on the Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=154793</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WorkChoices won’t cost the Liberal Party the 2010 election in the way it did the 2007 election, but it won’t help their decreasing chances of pulling off an improbable victory, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/20/keane-dead-and-buried-but-the-workchoices-zombie-dogs-abbott/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: Labor opens a lead again, asylum seeker approach popular</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/12/essential-labor-opens-a-lead-again-asylum-seeker-approach-popular/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/12/essential-labor-opens-a-lead-again-asylum-seeker-approach-popular/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RSPT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=152275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the latest Essential Research poll Labor continues to move ahead of the Coalition and has now accumulated a handy lead. Voters also approve of Julia Gillard's shifts on the RSPT and asylum seekers.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/12/essential-labor-opens-a-lead-again-asylum-seeker-approach-popular/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Voters down on Rudd and Abbott &#8212; and deeply worried about Workchoices</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/31/voters-down-on-rudd-and-abbott-and-deeply-worried-about-workchoices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/31/voters-down-on-rudd-and-abbott-and-deeply-worried-about-workchoices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 03:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=142414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott are falling rapidly in voters' estimation.  But Abbott has another problem -- no one believes him about Workchoices.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/31/voters-down-on-rudd-and-abbott-and-deeply-worried-about-workchoices/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Your children, are they safe from fat, old sunburnt people?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/27/your-children-are-they-safe-from-fat-old-sunburnt-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/27/your-children-are-they-safe-from-fat-old-sunburnt-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 03:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=141643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, they will be drowned in the bath by The Unions!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Colless: Tony, don&#8217;t be afraid of the big bad union</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/union-campaign-should-not-derail-coalition/story-e6frg6zo-1225838392149</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/union-campaign-should-not-derail-coalition/story-e6frg6zo-1225838392149#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=121691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new media campaign by ACTU called <a href="http://www.actu.org.au/Campaigns/Dontgobacktoworkchoices/default.aspxl">"Don't Go Back To WorkChoices"</a> is an unfair and untruthful attack on Tony Abbott. The Libs<em>need</em> to offer a suitable IR alternative since Rudd's policies are collapsing, writes <b>Malcolm Colless</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Grattan: Can Abbott tame the WorkChoices beast?</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/can-abbott-control-ir-monster-20100218-oipm.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/can-abbott-control-ir-monster-20100218-oipm.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian workplace agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battlelines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=117890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Other disposed Lib leaders wouldn't touch industrial relations with a ten foot pole, but Tony Abbott says "WorkChoices wasn't all bad" and is pushing his own, more tightly reigned in version. Will it work for Abbott? asks <b>Michelle Grattan</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Why business won&#8217;t be lining up to support Abbott&#8217;s IR plans</title>
		<link>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/From-passion-to-pragmatism-in-IR-pd20100218-2RRNR?OpenDocument</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/From-passion-to-pragmatism-in-IR-pd20100218-2RRNR?OpenDocument#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fair Work Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=117578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While employers may quietly support Tony Abbott's plan to scrap weekend penalty rates and unfair dismissal laws, they're not about to form a Coalition cheer squad, says <b>Nicholas Way</b>: they know Gillard will still be holding the reigns of power after the election.]]></description>
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		<title>WorkChoices II: the Coalition strikes back</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/17/workchoices-ii-the-coalition-strikes-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/17/workchoices-ii-the-coalition-strikes-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=117182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott has been steering the political narrative into some treacherous waters this week: industrial relations. As the sharks start circling, will the Coalition sink or swim in the spectre of WorkChoices?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/17/workchoices-ii-the-coalition-strikes-back/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Grattan: WorkChoices back from the dead</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/shift-in-focus-risky-for-abbott-20100215-o2wz.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/shift-in-focus-risky-for-abbott-20100215-o2wz.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial relations laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=116871</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let the scaremongering begin. Tony Abbott's new workplace relations reforms aren't dissimilar to the much hated WorkChoices. It's a risky move by Abbott to bring IR laws back into the spotlight, writes <b>Michelle Grattan</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/14/turnbull-exhumes-the-rotting-corpse-of-workchoices/</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/14/turnbull-exhumes-the-rotting-corpse-of-workchoices/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Pay Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal minimum wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorkChoices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does Harper's Christianity shape his idea of how recovery should proceed?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/08/rundle-did-harpers-christianity-influence-his-wage-decision/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/08/fair-pay-the-perils-of-politicians-appointing-independent-experts/</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/08/fair-pay-the-perils-of-politicians-appointing-independent-experts/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/10/a-mining-boom-for-mining-companies-not-for-anyone-else/</guid>
		<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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