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		<title>Getup! Reviews Its Year</title>
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		<title>Social Media As A Tool For Protest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marko Papic and Sean Noonan Internet services were reportedly restored in Egypt on Feb. 2 after being completely shut down for two days. Egyptian authorities unplugged the last Internet service provider (ISP) still operating Jan. 31 amidst ongoing protests across the country. The other four providers in Egypt — Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kevin Rudd&#8217;s Opening Address to the 2020 Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the text of Kevin Rudd&#8217;s Address Opening the 2020 Summit in Canberra. Australians one, Australians all. I too begin by acknowledging the first peoples of our nation. Just as I welcome all of you to this, the nation’s capital, to this, the nation’s Parliament. To this, the great meeting place of our common [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happened To australianpolitics.com?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers of australianpolitics.com will have noticed that the site has a completely new design and structure. So, what&#8217;s happened? The Site Is Now A Blog australianpolitics.com has been moved to the WordPress blog system. This means that instead of &#8220;flat&#8221; files that I have to code individually and upload to the server, the site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pressure GroupsLINKS TO ALL CONTENT FROM OLD SITE</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Listing of Australian Pressure Groups There are many hundreds of pressure groups in Australia, some economic, some social, some with broad aims, some devoted to single issues. A Saturday Reflection An eloquent defence of protest and dissidence from The Age in 1987. The Impact of Pressure Groups on the Democratic Process There is much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Council Calls For New Commonwealth-States Contract</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Business Council of Australia has released a report proposing reforms to the Australian federal system. The BCA says in the report: &#8220;In the past, the debate has been mainly framed around political and constitutional reasons for change. The extent of the problems and dysfunctions of the current system of federal–state relations – marked by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brendan Nelson Speaks To John Laws</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Minister for Education, Brendan Nelson, spoke to radio 2UE&#8217;s John Laws following a demonstration that prevented him speaking at the University of Sydney. This is the transcript of Brendan Nelson&#8217;s interview with John Laws on 2UE. LAWS: Minister, good morning. DR NELSON: Good morning John. LAWS: Am I right – it’s a sad day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Council Lobbies On Infrastructure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Business Council of Australia has produced a position paper calling for action on Australia&#8217;s infrastructure. Download a copy of the BCA report Business Council of Australia Website This is the text of an article by Rod Pearse, chairman of the Business Council of Australia&#8217;s Sustainable Growth Taskforce and chief executive of Boral Limited. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murdoch Group To Lobby Backbench MPs Over Digital TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 1999 05:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Limited, the Murdoch company that publishes The Australian, is planning to direct mail hundreds of thousands of leaflets in coalition held marginal seats in an effort to lobby the government over digital television policy. Federal Cabinet is due to debate the issue on Monday, the same day as the campaign is scheduled to start. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intense Lobbying of MPs Over Digital TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 1999 15:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Age reports today that Federal MPs, especially those on the policy committee advising the Communications Minister, Senator Richard Alston, are being lobbied by media and communications companies in the leadup to a Cabinet decision about which digital television policy model should be adopted. Paul Neville, the chairman of the Communications Committee, is quoted as [...]]]></description>
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