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	<title>19Seven&#187; Pathetic Parliaments</title>
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		<title>Pathetic Parliaments</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Casino Party from Yuri Arcurs WebsiteOur parliaments, and by implication, our politicians are pathetic!I have just discovered that by the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 our governments have ensured that Australians can only gamble in Australian venues. In other words, the immoral collection of gambling tax has been protected.In Victoria, that&#8217;s $1.7 Billion per year. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaders who lie</title>
		<link>http://nigelball.org/2010/05/28/leaders-who-lie</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 11:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s sad that we no longer have any ability as a community to hold our leaders accountable for their words or promises. Take our current Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd and his current decision to spend $38 million dollars on an advertising campaign supporting his new resources company taxation. Quite apart from the fact that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it unreasonable to expect telco gouging to be stopped?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 09:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague, knowing that I had recently fallen foul of yet another telco for thousands of dollars of &#8220;excess usage charges&#8221;, sent me this link, presumably thinking it might make me feel better. Instead, it prompted me to recall that this is the fourth time a telco (a different one each time) has gouged, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Storm in a Teacup?</title>
		<link>http://nigelball.org/2010/04/23/storm-in-a-teacup</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know it is just a game, and I know I have more important things to do than post this blog entry. But, I can&#8217;t help wondering what it is that I am missing about the ginormous kerfuffle encompassing Victoria and the NRL. According to the official Storm website there are 36 players on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do we really still need saints?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following started as a short Facebook update after I satisfied myself that most tweets about Mary MacKillop were negative. But, it kept on growing so it&#8217;s ended up here&#8230; is pleased to report that a totally informal check of today&#8217;s tweets on MacKillop&#8217;s sainthood shows close to 100% comment on the irrelevancy and pure [...]]]></description>
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