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	<title>The Stump</title>
	
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		<title>A tick for the speech writer and the deliverer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A fine speech today by Prime Minister Julia Gillard commemorating the death of Sir Zelman Cowen. Both written and delivered well.<br/>
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		<title>The Reserve Bank’s inclination to punish</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s as if there is an inclination to punish in those monetary economists. Here goes Australia, in the words of the official statement of the Bank after today&#8217;s board meeting, &#8221; with growth expected to be close to trend and...<br/>
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		<title>Bob Brown’s sexist commentators?</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/02/06/bob-browns-sexist-commentators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Greens leader Bob Brown has accused male commentators, reports the ABC, of making sexist criticisms of the Prime Minister. Senator Brown says the Nielsen poll reflects his belief that public support for Ms Gillard is growing, but he believes she is...<br/>
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		<title>Statement from Kevin Rudd on Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last Kevin Rudd &#8211; who admittedly has been fairly vocal about the need to get rid of the vile butcher Bashar Al-Assad &#8212; has issued a statement about the overnight failure of the Security Council (after China and Russia blocked action)...<br/>
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		<title>The ordinary man Abbott</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/29/the-ordinary-man-abbott/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From the comments on an earlier post of mine comes this incisive observation by John64: As per usual, Labor&#8217;s obsession with Abbott does them more harm and not a spot of good. And this one too from Kevin Rennie: Perhaps modern politics is more...<br/>
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		<title>Spun out of control</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/thestump/~3/lBAo2kEC1GQ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In one sense there was nothing unusual about how Prime Ministerial press secretary Tony Hodges acted on Australia Day. Getting unfavourable publicity for your opponent is as much a part of the spinning game as getting your own boss seen in the best...<br/>
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		<title>A volatile Florida Republican primary market</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/thestump/~3/JFr7GoOCDEs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/28/a-volatile-florida-republican-primary-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Well it looks like Mitt Romney will start a short priced favourite to win the Republican Florida primary but it has been an up and down ride to get there. The fluctuations on Intrade over the last month The market has closely followed the polls.<br/>
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		<title>40 years of Friends of the Earth</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/thestump/~3/fUu-eWXS1uQ/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/28/40-years-of-friends-of-the-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From a London Daily Telegraph look at the 40th anniversary celebrations of Friends of the Earth: Last year, a former executive director, Charles Secrett, accurately accused it and other green groups of being “out of touch, ineffective and...<br/>
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		<title>Death of Jack Idema.</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/thestump/~3/7pf2q83thKE/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/27/death-of-jack-idema/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shakira Hussein</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The US media has reported the death of Jonathon (“Jack”) Idema, the former Special Forces soldier and convicted fraudster who was sentenced in 2004 to ten years imprisonment in after being found guilty of kidnapping and torturing Afghan citizens in...<br/>
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		<title>A headline I never thought I’d see – Up to China to save capitalism</title>
		<link>http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyBlogs/thestump/~3/YYPmJ3fASX0/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/26/a-headline-i-never-thought-id-see-up-to-china-to-save-capitalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From that bastion of British conservatism: Reporting from Davos Jeremy Warner writes: Asked what he thought the future held, Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale University, cited research that historically crises of this magnitude last at...<br/>
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