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		<title>Whitlam And Fraser Call For Strengthening Of Ministerial Accountability</title>
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		<title>John Howard&#8217;s Senate Abuses &#8211; The Story Since July 1st</title>
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		<title>Hereditary Peers Abolished in Britain</title>
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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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