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		<title><![CDATA[Are Cartels a Bad Thing? | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2009/08/26/are-cartels-a-bad-thing-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(Episode 317; 9 minutes 13) Well, of course cartels are a bad thing, but Jason Soon, a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, says their impact is often overstated and so is the legislative response. He argues the case in his paper The Folly of Criminalising Cartels. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:44:48 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Breaking the Cycle of Family Joblessness | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2009/05/06/breaking-the-cycle-of-family-joblessness-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(Episode 238: 11min 24) Despite reports of low unemployment, almost one in eight children in Australia live in a family where no parent is working. This is a significant improvement on the situation in the mid-90s, but could get worse with the economic downturn.    Jessica Brown from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 13:44:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Would a GM Collapse Have International Repercussions?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(11min 47) The Australian government has promised $6.2 billion over 13 years to support the Australian car industry. The question is, of course, will the industry last that long? Holden could well be brought down with the collapse of its U.S. parent, General Motors.    With the cash...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:36:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Paying For General Motors Mistakes | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2009/03/16/paying-for-general-motors-mistakes-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(11min 47) The Australian government has promised $6.2 billion over 13 years to support the Australian car industry. The question is, of course, will the industry last that long? Holden could well be brought down with the collapse of its US parent, General Motors.    With the cash...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:41:24 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jim Shows Growth in the Garden | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2009/03/12/jim-shows-growth-in-the-garden-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(21min 05) Jim Penman, the man behind Jimâ€™s Mowing, says he loves recessions. They provide a new  growth in franchisees who can help to meet the continual demand for gardening services.    In a wide ranging discussion Phil Dobbie asks him about how he started out, what...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:01:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Business Council on the Rudd Stimulus Package | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2009/02/19/the-business-council-on-the-rudd-stimulus-package-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(14min 55) After some argy-bargy in the Senate, the Australian government has passed a $42 billion fiscal stimulus package. About a third of the money will go in cash handouts to low and middle income earners, with most of the remainder allocated on infrastructure projects.    Thereâ€™s been...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:43:39 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Waste of Taxpayers' Money | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2009/02/05/a-waste-of-taxpayers-money-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(15min 53) This week the Australian Federal Government announced a $42 billion fiscal stimulus package to protect the economy from the ravages of the world downturn. Will it work?    Thatâ€™s a question Phil Dobbie puts to Robert Carling, a Senior Fellow at The Centre for Independent Studies....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:53:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business Across Boundaries | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2009/01/12/business-across-boundaries-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(8 min 27) What's the key to operating successfully in the international world of business? With a small local market many Aussie businesses have to expand overseas if they are to grow, but it can be a risky step to take, particularly in the current economic climate. Irrespective of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:30:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Capital Xenophobia | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2008/11/30/capital-xenophobia-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(15min 10) Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Stephen Kirchner from the Centre for Independent Studies about his paper Capital Xenophobia 2. He says that restrictive investment regimes are holding Australia back. Although the situation has improved since the eighties, we still fall a long way behind the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:36:46 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[David vs Goliath | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2008/11/27/david-vs-goliath-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(8min 27) When Encyclopaedia Britannica asked their Australian MD to move on there was disagreement as to how much he was owed. David Campbell believed he was entitled to nine months redundancy pay but he was paid for three. Newly unemployed, he was prepared to go to court to fight...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:09:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BTalk Turns 100 | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2008/10/19/btalk-turns-100-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(26min 23) Welcome to the 100th episode of BTalk Australia.     Back in June we kicked off a daily podcast, aimed at Aussies but intended to be of interest to BNet users the world over. Today you can hear the variety of topics we have covered so...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:17:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Should Pay for Maternity Leave? | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2008/09/17/who-should-pay-for-maternity-leave-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(13min 23) What is the best method for providing income support for parents during the first year of their child's life? Should support be tax-payer funded, employer funded or self-funded?    Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Jessica Brown from the Centre for Independent Studies about...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:00:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Do We Need an Aussie Mac? | BTalk Australia]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2008/09/16/do-we-need-an-aussie-mac-btalk-australia/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(13min 24) The government bailout of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has shown the depth of the US credit crisis. Yet Christopher Joye and Joshua Gans propose that an Australia equivalent, dubbed AussieMac, would provide a minimum level of liquidity during times of financial crisis and ensure continued...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:13:37 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Full fees deter local students, report says.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200610/ai_n17475325]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Lisa Macnamara    Oct 31, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A Monash  University research paper points to Australia facing a shortage of  health, engineering, accounting and teaching graduates.  It says there  are not enough government-assisted places being provided and that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vanstone defends work visas.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200609/ai_n17489561]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Nick O'Malley     Sep 06, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The  World Bank's suggestion that Australia allow Pacific Islanders to  work as fruit pickers has come under attack.  The Centre for Independent  Studies has produced a report...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Polls close in Ukraine's presidential runoff vote]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KIEV AFP &#8212; Polling stations closed in Ukraine's crucial runoff presidential election that pitted a pro-Russia prime minister against a Western-leaning opposition candidate.  An independent exit poll by the Razumkov Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies and the Kiev International Institute for Sociology KMIS said Pro-Western opposition leader...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pro-West opposition leader wins Ukraine presidential vote: exit poll]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KIEV AFP &#8212; Pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko won Ukraine's presidential runoff election, comfortably beating pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, an independent exit poll showed.  Yushchenko got 54 percent of the vote, compared to 43 percent for Yanukovich, according to a revised exit poll by the Razumkov Ukrainian Centre...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In passing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Enns: Executive Director of the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies; played a leading role in international organizations for persons with disabilities. Died in Sri Lanka while on a CCDS research project for the Asian Development Bank.  Tanis Doe: Professor, School of Social Work at the University of Victoria;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Consilium gives elite players something to think about.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200208/ai_n17815282]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Aug 18, 2002 The Sydney Morning Herald    ABIX via COMTEX -- Michael Chaney says he spent the weekend before  he announced Wesfarmers' annual results "out of his comfort  zone". Chaney spent the weekend in early August 2002 at a three-day  conference set up by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Free speech sits ill with a free market.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200109/ai_n17638289]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sep 27, 2001 The Australian Financial Review    ABIX via COMTEX -- The Centre for Independent Studies CIS is the  Australian Government's adviser on education policy. The CIS  questions the value of democracy. It is surprising that a body such as  the CIS should be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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