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<title><![CDATA['Peak everything': Fischer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FEW public figures in secular Australia can wangle the Pope and agriculture into the same speech, but Tim Fischer is a notable exception.
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[DAFF directionless, say Cobb and Nash]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE federal opposition started the new parliamentary year this week by accusing the Labor government of abandoning agriculture.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Anger at independent MPs on woodchips]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE independent federal MPs Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor have backed out of what the Greens say was a ''critical'' part of the carbon tax deal, moving to allow the forestry industry to continue burning native woodchips as renewable energy.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Abattoir cruelty on camera]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A SYDNEY abattoir has been forced to stop slaughtering and faces closure and prosecution after hidden-camera footage of chilling animal cruelty emerged.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Few go for cash offer to move to bush]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ONLY 306 people have signed up for a federal government scheme to ­provide financial incentives for the unemployed to move to rural areas.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Greens push for CSG inquiry]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[GREENS Senator Larissa Waters has proposed a broad-ranging Federal Senate inquiry to investigate the impacts of Coal Seam Gas mining on land and water resources on a comprehensive national scale.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Carbon levy booklet fails fact check]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE 20-page colour booklet What a Carbon Price Means for You, which was mailed to 10 million households in August, may become something of a collectors item.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Problems flare as solar tender reopened]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE federal government was yesterday forced into reopening the tender process for public funding of its $1.5 billion solar flagship project as doubts mounted over whether the project could ever be financially viable.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Katter's power plan still on table]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE Gillard government is keeping open the prospect of a $335 million grant for Queensland independent Bob Katter's CopperString power project, even though it has failed a key requirement for the funding.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't give Gillard free kicks, says Abbott]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[TONY ABBOTT has told his MPs that only Coalition ill-discipline can save Labor and Julia Gillard, urging his side to avoid unnecessary fights over principle.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Canberra scuttling solar 'flagships': Greens]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE Greens have accused the government of creating a solar energy scheme that was ''designed to fail'' after it emerged that two major solar projects set to receive $750 million in government funding have failed to find investor backing.
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australia key for food price stability]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AUSTRALIA, as a world agricultural leader, must do more to help protect farmers in developing countries from aggressive foreign investors, according to international economist and World Food Prize laureate Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Katter the younger no fan of dad's style]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rob Katter confesses he feels like ''a bit of a copout'' because he doesn't go in for the theatrics of his famous father, the maverick north Queensland MP Bob Katter.
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Carbon tax only a good start: report]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A CARBON price alone will not be enough for Australia to meet its target of a dramatic cut in greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, an analysis by the Grattan Institute has found.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bob's fair, if there]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE maverick MP Bob Katter has failed to show up for almost half the votes in Parliament but could claim to be the most independent of the independents, splitting his votes almost evenly between the government and the opposition.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rudd leads Gillard but voters reject change]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[KEVIN RUDD has a healthy lead over Julia Gillard as preferred Labor leader, but among Labor voters Ms Gillard is ahead by a nose.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Poll throws Gillard a lifeline]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[JULIA GILLARD has been handed a lifeline with the latest Herald/Nielsen poll showing support for the Prime Minister and her government increasing sharply.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mitchell appointed Fed Director of Nationals]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FEDERAL President of The Nationals, John Tanner, has announced that Scott Mitchell has been appointed Federal Director of The Nationals.
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rudd to move on Gillard before Qld poll: Bishop]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[DEPUTY Opposition Leader Julie Bishop yesterday predicted Kevin Rudd would probably challenge Julia Gillard before the March 24 Queensland election, as senior ministers were peppered with questions about their beleaguered leader.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Combet attacks colleagues for white-anting Gillard]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE Minister for Climate Change, Greg Combet, has called on colleagues to stop white-anting the Prime Minister and to concentrate on their jobs.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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