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		<title>On Line Opinion - Nation Building</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>Can the NBN &#8216;save&#8217; our cities?</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Alan Davies)</author>
			<description>It has been argued that the National Broadband Network could be a key driver of decentralisation.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10900</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:15:30 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>It is easier to plan with a stable population</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Eric Claus)</author>
			<description>The major political parties are more concerned about getting elected than about planning beyond the next term of government.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10800</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:19:32 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Going underground</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Ross Elliott)</author>
			<description>A new underground rail line for Brisbane could be the sort of infrastructure initiative which costs the community a great deal.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10703</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:36:06 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Forecasting new infrastructure patronage</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Alan Davies)</author>
			<description>Not all infrastructure projects, such as toll roads, tunnels and rail, are guaranteed to deliver a motza.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10657</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:45:17 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Why is urban sprawl bad?</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Ross Elliott)</author>
			<description>New suburban communities, if done well, can achieve the environmental, social, community and economic benefits claimed for high density housing.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10465</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 08:29:21 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ruining our cities to save them</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Jeremy Gilling and John Muscat)</author>
			<description>Are Eco enclaves and Mad Max suburbs the answer to population concerns? </description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10313</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 3 May 2010 11:01:44 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Urban planning: it&#8217;s a cultural problem</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Hugh Pavletich)</author>
			<description>New Zealand's urban planning problems are similar in may respects to Austalia's.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10226</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:34:18 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Sydney: choking in its own density</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Wendell Cox)</author>
			<description>Higher housing densities produce greater traffic congestion, higher levels of air pollution and greater public health risks.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10155</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:40:33 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>The questions we don&#8217;t ask: a review of the Australian Energy Resource Assessment</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Cameron Leckie)</author>
			<description>Energy and oil: we are deluding ourselves into believing that business as usual can continue indefinitely.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10144</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:52:21 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Not another transport plan</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Richard Allsop)</author>
			<description>There is a tendency for states to have large s*xy transport projects to capture the public's imagination.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:03:54 +1000</pubDate>
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