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		<title>On Line Opinion - Indigenous Affairs</title>
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		<description>Australia's e-journal of social and political debate</description>
		<language>en-au</language>
		<copyright>Copyright 2000-2008, National Forum</copyright>
		<managingEditor>susan@onlineopinion.com.au (Susan Prior)</managingEditor>
		<webMaster>lachlan@onlineopinion.com.au (Lachlan Kuhn)</webMaster>
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			<title>Another angry, confused, condemning white voice</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Robert Chapman)</author>
			<description>Paul Toohey's 'Last Drinks' Quarterly Essay assumes that outsiders have a better understanding of the problems and solutions involved in contemporary Indigenous life.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7739</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 8 Aug 2008 08:27:53 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>The abuse of innocence</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Stephen Hagan)</author>
			<description>Parents ought to do more to protect their children by kicking their alcohol, drug and gambling habits.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7688</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:40:35 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Marrying outside the mob</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Stephen Hagan)</author>
			<description>The issue of race and mixed marriage has been the subject of much debate around camp fires and in lounge rooms of Indigenous households.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7617</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:20:45 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Welfare that's not working</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Sara Hudson)</author>
			<description>Despite the good intentions behind it, the CDEP program for Indigenous Australians has become an obstacle to real employment.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7619</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:09:21 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>A poisoned chalice</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (James Cumes)</author>
			<description>By the time the successful candidate moves into the White House next January, financial devastation may already have swept through the American and global economy like a tornado.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7589</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:43:40 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>The good will to 'close the gap'</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (James Ensor)</author>
			<description>The challenge is to translate public support and political will into sustained improvements in Indigenous health.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7590</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:23:12 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Cultural death by apathy</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Stephen Hagan)</author>
			<description>How about adopting a single Indigenous language as the accepted language for inclusion in the national curriculum?</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7567</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:00:36 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>School attendance and welfare</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Ruth McCausland)</author>
			<description>The withdholding of welfare payments in the NT punishes people who may have been spending it in the interests of children.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7564</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:59:45 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Skinny latt&#233; ideology</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Stephen Hagan)</author>
			<description>Should Indigenous Australians blame their parlous living conditions on the government or should they accept some of the responsibility?</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7527</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:27:58 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Native title rhetoric</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Alison Vivian)</author>
			<description>An opportunity lost - the Noongar people&#8217;s native title claim over the Perth metropolitan area.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:09:57 +1000</pubDate>
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