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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[Torture causes long-term harm to more than just the initial victims]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The battle for public acceptance of "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation as part of the "new normal" for statecraft after September 11 hangs in the balance.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 22:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Joke's worn off as films cue the stock Arab]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I look forward to seeing The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen's latest attempt at lampooning other cultures, which is released today.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I didn't vote for that]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It’s getting exciting, isn’t it. Very dramatic, full of unexpected twists and turns. It’s the first thing we want to talk about when we get to work each day.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 03:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Our military strategies are indefensible]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WE SHOULD thank Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan. Their budget cuts have destroyed the defence policy of the 2009 white paper, and that is a good thing because it was a bad policy. Now it is their job to do better, and create the defence policy Australia needs to be a middle power in the Asian century. That will not be easy.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't allow technology to get in the way of life]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I was on a ferry crossing Sydney Harbour, sitting outside surrounded by wind, waves and spectacular views when I saw the young girl in front of me ask her father something. He sighed, nodded and handed over his smartphone. Next thing the girl's head was buried in it and the swish of the sea was interrupted by electronic squawks.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 23:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In Labor's death throes, Gillard might remake our politics]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[TUESDAY'S budget was much more interesting than first appears. It was deeply political. But in the best sense of the word.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 23:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The money for schools must come from parents]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Exciting momentum was generated by the Gonski report on the funding of schools, but now the matter is wallowing in troubled waters. The impetus is in danger of being lost. Like a new toy without a battery, educators are left with a handful of promises.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 22:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Business slams scrapping of company tax cut]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Business has slammed the government's decision to scrap $4.7 billion worth of company tax cuts and redistribute the revenue to households.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 23:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Get off Gillard's back, urges Westpac chief]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WESTPAC chief executive Gail Kelly has urged other business leaders to work constructively with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and put aside the combative approach that some have taken to her minority government.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 23:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Gillard's grace enough to save her?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Somebody who knows Julia Gillard well and works closely with her once remarked that her greatest attribute was her outward calm.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 05:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Clubs stake new claims on pokies trials]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[CLUBS in the ACT that have agreed to a trial of mandatory precommitment on poker machines  are now calling for the legislation to ensure the trial assesses the impact on the industry and contains a cost-benefit analysis, not just assessment of  how well the scheme reduces problem gambling.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 23:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Abbott close to finishing line but we still need two in the race]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IF THIS week's Newspoll primary vote of 27 per cent was replicated at an election, Labor would lose more than half its House of Representatives seats. That would be a catastrophe for it, but it would also make the political scales undesirably lopsided.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 23:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hatred of women exists in the West as well as the Arab world]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA['WOMEN have very little idea of how much men hate them,'' wrote Germaine Greer in The Female Eunuch. So outraged were men that wives reportedly took to concealing their copies by wrapping them in plain brown paper.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 23:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jump off the policy pendulum]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I like Americans. I have American friends, and I remember a trivial incident that endeared me to Americans forever. We were in a funicular going up one of the hills surrounding Lake Como in Italy, at close quarters with a group of Yanks. 

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<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 22:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gillard should dump carbon tax, says Keneally]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Former NSW premier Kristina Keneally says Julia Gillard should dump or "dial back" the carbon tax in a bid to save herself at the next election.
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 22:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The return of the Australian magnate]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Imagine a ladder, in which each rung represents a million dollars of wealth. On this ladder, the typical Australian household is halfway to the first rung. Someone in the top 10 per cent is at least 1½ rungs up. A household in the top 1 per cent is at least 5 rungs up.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 22:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Last drinks for pub clown as Palmer joins the circus]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ABOUT the same time the mining magnate Clive Palmer announced he wanted to run against the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, at the next election - just as soon as he had finished building a life-size replica of the Titanic - the satirists of Australia received a memo. Their services would no longer be needed.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buying a few more minutes for Labor]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Julia Gillard's tactics reflect a government afflicted by an addiction to short-termism.
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Winds turn against Murdoch influence]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In August 2009 James Murdoch delivered the MacTaggart Lecture. It is the keynote address at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, and the annual corroboree of the leading players in Britain's television world.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mundine sentiment missing the mark]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[What is the likely fact missing from the following droll entry in the NSW Police media log for Wednesday, September 28, last year?]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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