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		<title>Bob Brown Resigns As Greens Leader; Leaves Parliament Mid-Year; Christine Milne New Leader</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/2012/04/13/bob-brown-resigns-as-greens-leader.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Bob Brown has resigned as leader of the Australian Greens and will leave the Senate later this year.  Senator Christine Milne has been elected the new leader of the party.  Greens MP for Melbourne Adam Bandt has been elected deputy leader.  Includes audio and video of Brown's resignation press conference.]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Judith Adams Dies</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/2012/03/31/senator-judith-adams-dies.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Judith Adams, a Liberal from Western Australia, has died, aged 68.  Senator Adams was the Deputy Opposition Whip in the Senate and Temporary Chair of Committees.  She reportedly died from breast cancer.  This page contains biographical details and the transcript of Senator Adams's first speech to the Senate in 2005.]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Carr Enters The Senate And Becomes Foreign Minister</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/2012/03/02/bob-carr-enters-the-senate-and-becomes-foreign-minister.html</link>
		<comments>http://australianpolitics.com/2012/03/02/bob-carr-enters-the-senate-and-becomes-foreign-minister.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complete audio collection tracing Julia Gillard's announcement of Bob Carr's appointment as Foreign Minister, his nomination to the NSW Senate vacancy, swearing in as a senate and minister, and his maiden speech to the Senate.]]></description>
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		<title>Craig Thomson And The Gillard Government</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/2011/06/15/thomson-and-the-gillard-government.html</link>
		<comments>http://australianpolitics.com/2011/06/15/thomson-and-the-gillard-government.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kathy Jackson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Text of a speech in the Senate by Senator Michael Ronaldson - June 15, 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>3-2-1 Split In Tasmanian Senate Poll</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/2007/12/13/3-2-1-split-in-tasmanian-senate-poll.html</link>
		<comments>http://australianpolitics.com/2007/12/13/3-2-1-split-in-tasmanian-senate-poll.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AEC has declared the Senate result in Tasmania. The ALP has won 3 places, the Liberals 2 and the Greens 1. AEC State Manager for Tasmania, Marie Neilson, said that the Senate count had involved the keying of votes into a computerised system, and today an automated process was used to distribute preferences and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Howard&#8217;s Senate Abuses &#8211; The Story Since July 1st</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/2005/12/16/john-howards-senate-abuses.html</link>
		<comments>http://australianpolitics.com/2005/12/16/john-howards-senate-abuses.html#comments</comments>
		<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>Greens Say They Will Test New Senate On Day One</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/2005/08/07/greens-will-test-new-senate.html</link>
		<comments>http://australianpolitics.com/2005/08/07/greens-will-test-new-senate.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2005 06:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kerry Nettle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The four Greens senators say they will put the Howard Government's one-seat majority to the test this week.  The Greens will nominate Kerry Nettle for Senate President and Christine Milne for Deputy President, as well as moving for David Hicks to be returned from Guantanamo Bay. Parliament resumes this week.  For the first time since 1981, the incumbent government will have a majority in the upper house. ]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Support Breast-Feeding In Senate</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/2003/05/01/democrats-support-senate-breast-feeding.html</link>
		<comments>http://australianpolitics.com/2003/05/01/democrats-support-senate-breast-feeding.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2003 05:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media release from Australian Democrats Senator Natasha Stott Despoja supporting changes to Senate Standing Orders to permit breast-feeding in the chamber.]]></description>
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		<title>Meg Lees Under Attack By Democrats; Senate Numbers At Stake</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/2002/06/25/meg-lees-under-attack-by-democrats.html</link>
		<comments>http://australianpolitics.com/2002/06/25/meg-lees-under-attack-by-democrats.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian Democrats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>The former leader of the Australian Democrats, Senator Meg Lees, is embroiled in a bitter dispute over the leadership of Natasha Stott Despoja that threatens to split the party and hand the Howard Government the chance of passing its contentious privatisation of Telstra legislation.</strong>]]></description>
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		<title>Howard Signals Intention To Accept Colston&#8217;s Vote</title>
		<link>http://australianpolitics.com/1998/10/15/howard-to-accept-colston-vote.html</link>
		<comments>http://australianpolitics.com/1998/10/15/howard-to-accept-colston-vote.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 1998 06:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mal Colston]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Howard yesterday indicated that the government has decided to abandon its previous policy of not accepting the vote of renegade Labor Senator Mal Colston. Colston&#8217;s support is crucial if the government is to get its GST legislation through the Senate by the end of next June. Colston defected from the Labor Party in 1996. [...]]]></description>
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