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		<title>On Line Opinion - Education</title>
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		<description>Australia's e-journal of social and political debate</description>
		<language>en-au</language>
		<copyright>Copyright 2000-2010, National Forum</copyright>
		<managingEditor>susan@onlineopinion.com.au (Susan Prior)</managingEditor>
		<webMaster>lachlan@onlineopinion.com.au (Lachlan Kuhn)</webMaster>
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			<title>Gillard's got a cactus in the education policy cake</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Mike Williss)</author>
			<description>The major components of the Gillard educational policy cake are borrowed from Cactus Liberalism and Cactus Failed-Kleiniana.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10837</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:24:25 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Give us an education policy</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Jenny Allum)</author>
			<description>We want a well thought out education policy, not cheap, trite headlines and five-second grabs.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10848</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:22:55 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Education policy and motherhood statements</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (John Töns)</author>
			<description>None of the political parties seem to want to come grips with the issues that face education in Australia.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10836</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:21:38 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Education policy from the back of an envelope</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Peter West)</author>
			<description>The rhetoric on education is great - but what about the reality?</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10846</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:05:17 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Why schools need more than a business plan</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Catherine Doherty)</author>
			<description>Education markets are not the same as commodity markets. A 'good' school cannot indefinitely increase 'production'.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10840</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:28:48 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Julia Gillard's Baccalaureate</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (John Ridd)</author>
			<description>Gillard&#8217;s Baccalaureate will probably join Howard&#8217;s Certificate on the rocks of Queensland&#8217;s educational incompetence.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10833</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:28:34 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>The education election: much ado about nothing</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Chris Bonnor)</author>
			<description>Weighing up the merits of competing education policies is difficult because there aren&#8217;t many. </description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:28:22 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>The deserving rich v the undeserving poor</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Jane Caro)</author>
			<description>Unlike the recipients of real welfare, who are rigorously policed, there is little accountability for the millions handed to private schools.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:44:52 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Cane toad solutions don't work, especially not in education</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Phil Cullen)</author>
			<description>Did Julia Gillard really buy NAPLAN from a US lawyer?</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10812</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:44:17 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>They came, they saw, and they are not coming back - overseas students</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Dilan Thampapillai)</author>
			<description>Overseas students underwrite our tertiary education sector, but we are not paying our premium</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:54:12 +1000</pubDate>
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