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		<title>Australia&#8217;s great tax challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waste and inefficiency are features common to virtually any modern tax system. But even for policymakers with the best of intentions, there are no easy solutions. This seven page special report considers the complexities of reforming taxation in Australia.]]></description>
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		<title>So, are we in a recession yet?</title>
		<link>http://www.nickford.com.au/site/2009/01/20/recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World in Recession?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a question many in the community are asking, and which economists are desperately trying to answer.]]></description>
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		<title>Who can put a roof over their heads?</title>
		<link>http://www.nickford.com.au/site/2009/01/13/student-housing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[law and order]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tactics might be controversial, but the four month long illegal occupation of buildings owned by the University of Melbourne has drawn attention to the issue of student housing affordability.]]></description>
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		<title>In search of peace</title>
		<link>http://www.nickford.com.au/site/2009/01/05/in-search-of-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a week of air strikes, Israeli troops are now battling Hamas militants in the streets of the forlorn Gaza Strip. As a desperate situation worsens, one critical question comes to mind: can there ever be peace in the Middle East?]]></description>
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		<title>Plus ça change</title>
		<link>http://www.nickford.com.au/site/2008/12/31/plus-ca-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008 has been a remarkable year, best characterised perhaps by the word 'change'. Major political developments have been coupled with economic turmoil, and as this end-of-year review argues, 2009 might offer more of the same.]]></description>
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		<title>Another way to lie</title>
		<link>http://www.nickford.com.au/site/2008/12/16/another-way-to-lie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World in Recession?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a tough year dealing with the global financial crisis, traders on Wall Street would surely have been hoping for some good news to lead them in to festive season. Instead, a time-bomb set by a respected member of the investment community has just exploded, with several major institutions and famous faces caught in the blast. Last week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The disaster that is Zimbabwe</title>
		<link>http://www.nickford.com.au/site/2008/12/15/zimbabwe-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe in Crisis]]></category>
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Zimbabweans are dying amid the corruption and despotism of their immovable President, Robert Mugabe. They die at the hands of his thugs, who dole out punishments against those that would dare to oppose the octogenarian tyrant, or even those who fail to support him enthusiastically enough. They die as a result of failing infrastructure: roads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reverse crowding out?</title>
		<link>http://www.nickford.com.au/site/2008/12/08/reverse-crowding-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[television]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nickford.com.au/site/?p=374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In exciting news for Australian politics fans, subscription TV channel Sky News will be launching a dedicated parliamentary channel early in the new year. A-SPAN &#8212; borrowing from its American equivalent, C-SPAN &#8212; will offer coverage of domestic political proceedings from Canberra as well as state parliaments, while also filling in other slots with content [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bangkok breaks down</title>
		<link>http://www.nickford.com.au/site/2008/12/02/bangkok-breaks-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nickford.com.au/site/2008/12/02/bangkok-breaks-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nickford.com.au/site/?p=362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In planning our now abandoned India trip some months ago, an early suggestion if plans for the conference happened to fall through was for our group to stop in Thailand for a holiday instead. Yet as terrorists attacked Mumbai, political instability in Bangkok threatened to destroy a thriving tourist industry there as well. Last week, anti-government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change in the city</title>
		<link>http://www.nickford.com.au/site/2008/12/01/change-in-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nickford.com.au/site/?p=356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As has no doubt become apparent to even casual visitors to this site, I am an ardent follower of political events. I enjoy monitoring elections seemingly wherever they are in the world &#8212; from great democratic spectacles in America to the disgustingly fraudulent polls in Zimbabwe. Yet even I can&#8217;t manage to get particularly enthused about local [...]]]></description>
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