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		<title>Begin Rant: Understanding real discrimination</title>
		<link>https://beginrant.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/begin-rant-understanding-real-discrimination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post fills me with great sadness to write, and discloses some personal things I probably wouldn&#8217;t otherwise, but it needs to be said. Throughout my life I have always given lip service in opposition to discrimination. It must be obliterated from our world yada yada. It was not until I came here that I really understood what it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beginrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11468327&amp;post=1019&amp;subd=beginrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Begin Rant: Cheap Votes Part 6 &#8211; party machines</title>
		<link>https://beginrant.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/begin-rant-cheap-votes-part-6-party-machines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheap Votes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do not be fooled: the most dangerous element in the Australian body politic to the value of the voter is our current political parties. Or more correctly, the party machines. Madly obsessed with discipline, political parties in Australia deny their members a voice of their own. Elected representatives are hog tied to shilling the party [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beginrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11468327&amp;post=875&amp;subd=beginrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Begin Rant: Seeing the other side of the Israel/Palestine issue</title>
		<link>https://beginrant.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/begin-rant-seeing-the-other-side-of-the-israelpalestine-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So for those of you not aware, I&#8217;m currently spending some time in Israel. The reasons for this are long and varied, and not particularly relevant to this post, but I&#8217;m here for a while. And prior to coming here, you couldn&#8217;t exactly describe me as a friend of the State of Israel. I&#8217;m not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beginrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11468327&amp;post=1001&amp;subd=beginrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Begin Rant: The mysterious case of the missing Renewable Energy Atlas</title>
		<link>https://beginrant.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/begin-rant-the-mysterious-case-of-the-missing-renewable-energy-atlas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t often rant about renewable energy. Largely because there is no need to. The legislation is generally doing its thing, people are putting money in to it, research is happening, work is happening&#8230; it&#8217;s all progressing well. However, I do think it is an important thing that has to be done. We have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beginrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11468327&amp;post=995&amp;subd=beginrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap Votes Part 5 &#8211; unprofessional campaigning</title>
		<link>https://beginrant.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/cheap-votes-part-5-unprofessional-campaigning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is one thing that I believe is central to much of the issue around the value of the voter in Australia, it is the professionalism, or lack there of, in Australian campaigns. The vast majority of people working on campaigns in Australia are not professional campaign operatives. They are predominantly party loyalists, staffers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beginrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11468327&amp;post=873&amp;subd=beginrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap Votes Part 4 &#8211; candidate quality</title>
		<link>https://beginrant.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/begin-rant-cheap-votes-part-4-candidate-quality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An American political consultant friend of mine once commented to me that he was a bit stunned by the clear lack of oratorical skill of Australian politicians. As I said to him: &#8216;that&#8217;s not the only thing that&#8217;s lacking&#8217;. The quality of political candidates in Australia is really quite poor on all sides of politics. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beginrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11468327&amp;post=871&amp;subd=beginrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Begin Rant: #occupyrecruiters</title>
		<link>https://beginrant.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/begin-rant-occupyrecruiters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OCCUPY RECRUITERS! The 99% of us want good jobs we like to do, but the evil 1% that are the recruiters are stopping us! With their inane questions, complete lack of comprehension of the profession they are hiring for, and their inability to read! WE THE PEOPLE ARE HAVING THE GOOD JOBS STOLEN FROM US [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beginrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11468327&amp;post=962&amp;subd=beginrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Begin Rant: Google+ application in political campaigns</title>
		<link>https://beginrant.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/begin-rant-google-application-in-political-campaigns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it’s still early days yet, and my political brain is still supposed to be on sabbatical, but I have to say it: Google+ was born to campaign. In utilizing social media for political (and other) campaigning purposes there have been many blunders and lots of experimentation. But in my extensive watching and a little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beginrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11468327&amp;post=946&amp;subd=beginrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap Votes Part 3 &#8211; electoral funding</title>
		<link>https://beginrant.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/begin-rant-cheap-votes-part-3-electoral-funding/</link>
		<comments>https://beginrant.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/begin-rant-cheap-votes-part-3-electoral-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All areas of Australian politics don’t spend enough on campaigning. Fact. It&#8217;s one of those classic sayings in US politics that (until Obama 08 anyway) more money was spent in the US on selling hamburgers each year than was spent on electing a President. In the Australian context the measure I like to use is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beginrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11468327&amp;post=869&amp;subd=beginrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap Votes: Part 2 &#8211; compulsory voting</title>
		<link>https://beginrant.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/cheap-votes-part-2-compulsory-voting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The supposed asset to our political system of compulsory voting makes both politicians and campaigns lazy. There. I said it. Lots of people don&#8217;t want to vote. Plenty will tell you they don&#8217;t feel informed enough to vote. Lots more will tell you they resent being forced to. For all the supposed good that compulsory [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beginrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11468327&amp;post=867&amp;subd=beginrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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