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		<description>Australia's e-journal of social and political debate</description>
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		<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>We&#8217;ve never had it so good</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Valerie Yule)</author>
			<description>No previous time, no previous place, have we ever had it as good as the average Australian has now. But at what cost?</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10008</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:38:19 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Forgiveness is overrated</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Helen Dale)</author>
			<description>We should shame Tony Abbott for his hypocrisy every time he sounds off on moral behaviour.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9985</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:24:47 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>The vilification of fatherhood</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Warwick Marsh)</author>
			<description>What exactly did Tony Abbott, father of three beautiful teenage girls, say to get him into so much trouble?</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9997</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:24:31 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>The Australian Nation - celebration AND criticism are the key</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Tristan Ewins)</author>
			<description>There is a sense that increasingly the modern Australian nation is coming to terms with its past.</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:40:26 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Belonging: the lost art?</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Kirsten Oakley)</author>
			<description>Our teenagers are becoming increasingly alienated: youth culture is not one of belonging anymore.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9967</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:32:21 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Lest we forget</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Rosie Williams)</author>
			<description>Australia Day 2010: learn something new about Australia and then tell someone you know or meet.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9942</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:28:19 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>The economics of terrorism</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Andrew Leigh)</author>
			<description>The more we can help poor governments provide basic services to their citizens, the less space we allow for radical rebels to fill the void.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:07:41 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>Cultures dance in harmony in new land</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Tanveer Ahmed)</author>
			<description>It is in the West that Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans mix with ease. It is here that the artifice of partition is most evident.</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:32:09 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>The benefits of mining or not, in Boomtown, WA</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Sarah Burnside)</author>
			<description>Western Australia remains a state firmly wedded to market principles; the mining industry occupies particular pride of place.</description>
			<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9953</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:11:16 +1000</pubDate>
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			<title>What a difference a lot of humans make</title>
			<author>editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Valerie Yule)</author>
			<description>A little look around tells us what a difference humans have made to the world in the past 150 years.</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:10:03 +1000</pubDate>
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