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		<title>Cover-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 03:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Bolta infers, if this report involved Tony Abbott, it would be all over the blats and the box. Listen from 36.50. Bigger than Texas, so to speak.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 06:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this time of loss and sadness it&#8217;s a comfort to know that loved ones remain to give us joy and comfort. Judy loved this pair almost as much as her own.]]></description>
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		<title>Bye Jude</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With great sadness we farewell the lovely, funny, adventurous, kind and generous Judy O&#8217;Toole, who passed away early today after a courageous, uncomplaining battle with that dastardly disease. We are all better people for having known and loved her.]]></description>
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		<title>Black power</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 01:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting sucked in on a massive scale: Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole with about 4 million times the mass of our sun, has trapped a giant cloud of gas and dust in its huge gravitational field and is pulling it inexorably inwards, at about 8 million km/h.]]></description>
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		<title>Lying Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 03:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott doesn&#8217;t have to worry about putting his foot in his mouth. He&#8217;s got dishonest opponents only too willing to do it for him. Abbott made this perfectly reasonable point in defending his paid parental leave scheme: We do not educate women to higher degree level to deny them a career. If we want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cling class</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 02:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blind Freddy, Arthur or Martha, Snowy on the trams or Blowie the dunnyman could have predicted this. For nothing. A new British study of 18 to 30-year-olds finds thousands still expect their parents to do the most basic chores for them, from laundry to shopping to doing up their flats. Almost half regularly get their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the track</title>
		<link>http://www.slattsnews.observationdeck.org/?p=7346</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 02:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mixed fortunes at yesterday&#8217;s Warrnambool Cup meeting where I backed the Cup winner. My collect paid the admission fee and provided stake for a red-hot tip in the last. Alas, it finished down the track so I went home no poorer or richer than when I arrived. Bit like dancing with your sister. Regrettably, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limited opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Ergas employs a fine turn of phrase to describe the schmozzle overseen by Treasurer Wayne Swan: Deconstructing Swan&#8217;s arguments is as challenging as picking a dead man&#8217;s wallet. Shop-worn tropes go round and round, like unclaimed bags on an airport carousel: Labor is the party of opportunity, a sentiment to which Eddie Obeid, Ian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prime probe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By any stretch, this is astonishing news: He told his audience: &#8220;So, let me make this perfectly clear. The Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, is under investigation by police. This is fact. I hadn&#8217;t planned to add to what I said yesterday out of respect for the detectives on the case. But if the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking point</title>
		<link>http://www.slattsnews.observationdeck.org/?p=7332</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reckon this will be the most discussed subject at Geelong district footy matches and in local bars today. A former AFL footballer has been remanded in custody this afternoon, after being arrested outside the Corio Village shopping centre this morning. Corio man William Lindsay Nicholls has been charged over a shooting at North Shore in [...]]]></description>
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