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		<title>A Sense of Entitlement(s)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the Federal election will definitely, probably, surely almost certainly be called tomorrow? If so, will it put an end to the slow burning story of NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon and her Senate campaign? For the past few weeks a series of stories have emerged about the abuse or inadvertent misuse (depending on where you stand) of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cabmac71.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10923832&amp;post=105&amp;subd=cabmac71&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postscript: The -illions Spent on Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After I had tweeted the basic elements of the previous posting last night, and went to work on it, Stephen Jones tweeted thus: And so they are. But it was sloppy, sloppy stuff from someone aspiring to a Parliamentary career. Filed under: Elections<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cabmac71.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10923832&amp;post=101&amp;subd=cabmac71&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The -illions Spent on Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wee hours of this morning, the ALP Candidate for Throsby at the forthcoming Federal election, Stephen Jones, tweeted: Well, we were excited about the prospect of that much money being spent on cutting down waiting time in emergency wards. $500 billion? Surely, that would cut down maximum waiting time not only to Kevin Rudd&#8217;s promised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cabmac71.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10923832&amp;post=86&amp;subd=cabmac71&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Billions promised ....</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">More billions</media:title>
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		<title>Meanwhile in Gladstone &#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://cabmac71.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/meanwhile-in-gladstone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Murray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when everyone seems to be running a mile from any connection to the colourful, allegedly firebombing, standover loan shark, Michael McGurk, the Gladstone Observer last week boasted its connections: CORRUPTION allegations linked to Michael McGurk, who had submitted plans with the then Gladstone City Council to build Goondoon Street’s first nine-storey accommodation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cabmac71.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10923832&amp;post=84&amp;subd=cabmac71&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ICAC and the McGurk Tape: Hearing or Telling?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the murder of Michael McGurk is not at the forefront of every Sydneysider’s mind, it is not for the lack of effort on the part of the Sydney Morning Herald. Since his shooting death on 3 September, he has featured in at least 116 separate items in the SMH. The owner of almost the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cabmac71.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10923832&amp;post=76&amp;subd=cabmac71&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barely Obeid of Sweat</title>
		<link>http://cabmac71.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/barely-obeid-of-sweat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since his re-election to the Upper House for an eight year term in 2007, ALP faction chief, Eddie Obeid has not made a single speech on any item of Parliamentary business. Not one. In fact, Obeid has not made a substantive speech on Parliamentary business since 12 November 2002, just over 7 years ago: a five [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cabmac71.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10923832&amp;post=67&amp;subd=cabmac71&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Letter from the Prime Minister</title>
		<link>http://cabmac71.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/a-christmas-letter-from-the-prime-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not called the Silly Season for nothing. Earlier today, a member of the twitterati wondered out loud whether the Prime Minister, Mr Kevin Rudd, had sent out a Christmas Letter in addition to the traditional Christmas Cards. The Christmas Letter is a relatively recent tradition. It is essentially an occasion to articulate and enumerate the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cabmac71.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10923832&amp;post=56&amp;subd=cabmac71&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Moments in the Red Room (No. 1 in a series)</title>
		<link>http://cabmac71.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/great-moments-in-the-red-room-no-1-in-a-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Honourable Ian Michael Macdonald was returned to the Cabinet last week as Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Mineral and Forest Resources and Minister for the Central Coast. Apart from the massive stimulus injection for the Central Coast hospitality industry, his return was welcome for another reason: the opportunity to revisit this special moment during Question [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cabmac71.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10923832&amp;post=19&amp;subd=cabmac71&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Intervention</title>
		<link>http://cabmac71.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/non-intervention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breathless reports in last Monday’s press of possible Federal intervention into the affairs of the NSW Branch of the ALP were greatly exaggerated, and in some instances, woefully ignorant. Of course the national leadership of the ALP wants NSW Labor to lift its game, to put it mildly. Everyone from the Prime Minister down had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cabmac71.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10923832&amp;post=16&amp;subd=cabmac71&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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