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		<title>Whitlam And Fraser Call For Strengthening Of Ministerial Accountability</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/2007/11/12/whitlam-fraser-call-for-ministerial-accountability.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two former Australian prime ministers, Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser, have called for the modernisation of the principle of ministerial accountability. In a letter published in the Herald-Sun, Fraser and Whitlam say that &#34;no matter how grave their failings may be, ministers no longer resign&#34;. Whitlam was prime minister from 1972-75 and Fraser from 1975-83. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Howard&#8217;s Senate Abuses &#8211; The Story Since July 1st</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Opposition has itemised what is calls abuse of process, procedure and convention in the Senate since July 1, the date on which the coalition government assumed a one-seat majority in the upper house. The ALP leader in the Senate, Chris Evans, has itemised a list of government actions concerning Question Time, censure motions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apathy And Anger: John Faulkner On Our Modern Australian Democracy</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/2005/10/22/apathy-and-anger-john-faulkner-democracy.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ALP's former leader in the Senate, John Faulkner, says Australian democracy is "drowning in distrust".  Arguing that politics requires commitment, patience, and a sense of proportion, Faulkner criticised Mark Latham's for young people to reject organised politics.]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Evans: Time For Reformation Of The Australian Parliament</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/2002/04/24/harry-evans-parliamentary-reform-speech.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reformation, not reform, of the Australian Parliament is needed, according to the Clerk of the Senate, Harry Evans.  Addressing the National Press Club in Canberra, Evans called for a reformation to enable the parliament to perform its prime functions, particularly holding the government in the lower house to account.]]></description>
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		<title>Hereditary Peers Abolished in Britain</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/1999/10/27/hereditary-peers-abolished-in-britain.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 1999 05:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An historic constitutional reform which abolishes hereditary peers in Britain&#8217;s House of Lords was passed today. The Lords voted 221-81 to end 800 years of hereditary titles. With devolution in Wales and Scotland now established, Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair has presided over the most significant constitutional and parliamentary reform since the Great Reform Act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meg Lees On Parliamentary Reform: The Baby And The Bathwater</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 1999 05:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Democrats leader Senator Meg Lees outlines her party's attitude to parliamentary reform and calls for an overhaul of the electoral system for the House of Representatives.]]></description>
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