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<description><![CDATA[Here is the place for you to vent on any national or world news and lifestyle stories on the YourGuide websites. If there is anything you see or hear that you like or don't like, tell us. Don't keep it to yourself!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Doogie Howser MP]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WHEN some wag set up a fake Twitter account called DoogiehowserMP in an attempt to lampoon new Queensland MP Wyatt Roy, the young Mr Roy had to do a little quick research.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Leaders face drama of rewarding their political victims]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[After nearly three months hunkered down in their electorates, Labor and Coalition MPs have descended on Canberra for their first full party room meetings since Parliament rose back in June.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stephanie Rice is just another Twit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stephanie Rice is the latest high-profile athlete to learn that Twitter can easily expose the twit in all of us.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Both leaders face big challenges]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[One won the war, the other the peace, and now the rules have changed for both major parties.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The rules of engagement for dropping the F-bomb]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[So many questions remain unanswered about the deal cut between the various independents, the Greens and the ALP to return the government to the treasury benches, but none more pressing than who dropped the F-bomb at Windsor and Oakeshott's presser the other day. Two days into the new government, which promised to let the sunlight in, and still we remain in the dark about the identity of the potty mouthed F-bomber.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Gillard won]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cajoling, strategising paid dividends for ALP]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[When girl meets girl]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Even though I'm not single, I still go on dates sometimes. With girls. Want to take a moment to digest that with your poached eggs and sourdough?
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Windsor runs into arms of likely loser Gillard]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Under both Labor and Coalition governments, he said, country people were “always sidelined.” No longer: “This is about using the political system to the advantage of the people we represent,” said Windsor.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Oakeshott holds Australia hostage with self-indulgent theatrics]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Everyone is entitled to their 15 minutes of fame. But the multitudes waiting to find out which side of politics would form Australia's next government have just been subjected to some particularly cruel and unusual punishment at the hands of the independent MP Rob Oakeshott.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No time for woulda coulda shoulda from Gillard]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Good Lord, she's actually done it. Australia's next Prime Minister is Julia Gillard courtesy of Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott -- two conservative blokes from the bush.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Keeping MPs alive, at work and free of scandal the order of the day]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Whoever gets the nod from the three independent MPs to form a minority government will be vulnerable to any unexpected departures, spectacular dummy spits, acts of God or other conniptions inside their own ranks during the next Parliament.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Birth of a baby too often kills parental career]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Expecting total sacrifice to the workplace ignores changes in gender roles.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Decide today … the time for procrastination is over]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The three country independents have reasonably had some breathing space to make up their minds but there is no excuse for any more procrastination.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Too much consensus, not too little]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rob Oakeshott's appeal for a new era of "consensus politics" is surely the feel-good catchphrase of the moment.It seems to evoke everything for which we yearn: a political culture where politicians stop bickering for sport; where policy ideas are considered on their merits irrespective of their partisan source.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In a game of being on target with figures Abbott shoots himself in foot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott has been poked in the eye by his own budget costings and his eagerness to spend - the same costings that, when the Coalition added them up, helped him successfully flay Labor for profligacy and waste during the election campaign.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[When do you turn off the cameras?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 24-hour news channels face tricky choices when violence unfolds before our eyes.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Opposing same-sex adoption is not bigoted]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The optimal family arrangement is for a biological mother and biological father raising their children in a committed long-term relationship. Where this is not possible, the next best arrangement should replicate as closely as possible the primary arrangement of biological mother and father.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The secret desires of men]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The secret desires of men, and why they go unfulfilled]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Labor blows economic trump card - again]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[By formally embracing the left-leaning Greens in a power-sharing agreement, Labor has now made it harder for the trio to justify to their conservative constituencies such a deal with Labor.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Media glare is the ace in Fraser-Kirk's hand]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's been revealed David Jones agreed to pay Kristy Fraser-Kirk $850,000 just a few days before she decided to pursue the company for $37m. For DJs the pressure to make this case go away is intense.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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