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		<title>Keating on Abbott</title>
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		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/16/keating-on-abbott/</link>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s ratings come down to earth; but he shouldn&#8217;t worry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In comments on my thread on the failure of the Abbott parental leave thought bubble to halt a move back to Labor in the polls (and the reasons why), I observed that Possum&#8217;s observation provides further confirmation that it was probably private polling inspired in the first place:
Tony Abbott should consider himself a little lucky [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/16/rudds-ratings-come-down-to-earth-but-he-shouldnt-worry/</link>
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		<title>Is the PSA test worth it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a fair bit of discussion going on throughout the media about the value of the value of a widely-used screening test for prostate cancer, the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA test.  The original inventor of the test, Richard Albin, has written an op-ed piece in the New York Times arguing that the test&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/16/is-the-psa-test-worth-it/</link>
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		<title>Pssst!  That&#8217;s our lecturer!  In the Susso queue!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s media reports that the Opposition now intends to support the Federal Government&#8217;s intention to bring back the Susso for several categories of welfare recipient including those on Newstart Allowance.
The use of the term &#8220;Susso&#8221; is not mere hyperbole as the percentage of the recipient&#8217;s income which is quarantined will only be able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/16/pssst-thats-our-lecturer-in-the-susso-queue/</link>
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		<title>BOM and CSIRO report on the state of the climate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have done a brief snapshot of the state of Australia&#8217;s climate. For example this map shows the increase in mean temperature per decade from 1960 to 2009:

It has become hotter everywhere, in some regions by as much a 0.4C per decade.

This image shows the change in rainfall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/16/bom-and-csiro-report-on-the-state-of-the-climate/</link>
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		<title>Coalition wedges itself on parental leave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Essential Research poll might show the reversal in the movement of the polls, which I suspected prompted Tony Abbott&#8217;s parental leave thought bubble last week. My view was that Abbott&#8217;s speech was a &#8216;crazy brave&#8217; attempt to shake things up and respond to internal polling which was either showing the Coalition going backwards or, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/15/coalition-wedges-itself-on-parental-leave/</link>
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		<title>Sex-selective IVF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Health and Medical Research Council is apparently reviewing whether the prohibition on those undergoing IVF treatment selecting the sex of the (hopefully) resulting children should be retained.  This guideline is part of &#8220;Ethical guidelines on the use of assisted reproductive technology in clinical practice and research&#8221;, a document last revised in 2007. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/15/sex-selective-ivf/</link>
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		<title>Lazy Sunday!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
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		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/14/lazy-sunday-100/</link>
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		<title>Saturday Salon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
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		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/13/saturday-salon-231/</link>
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		<title>Death penalty barred by federal legislation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Senate has passed, in a whisper, the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Torture Prohibition and Death Penalty Abolition) Bill 2009.  The bill is largely symbolic, creating a new federal offence of torture (which is already a crime under any number of state and federal laws, including when committed overseas).
The more interesting provision is schedule 2, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/12/death-penalty-barred-by-federal-legislation/</link>
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		<title>Uncommon sense on Israel/Palestine from an interesting source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, prompted by a link Paul Burns provided on my One day that shook the world thread, I did a Google search for reviews of Robert Service&#8217;s biography of Trotsky.  Not surprisingly, many such reviews were on Trotskyist websites and all the Trotskyist reviews were scathing of Service&#8217;s book, including one on the Workers&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/12/uncommon-sense-on-israelpalestine-from-an-interesting-source/</link>
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		<title>Editorial interference by the ABC&#8217;s chairman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABC Chairman Maurice Newman made a few comments yesterday that may go a long way to explaining some of the pressures editors and producers at the public broadcaster may be under &#8211; specifically on the issue of anthropogenic global warming (AGW).
This collective censorious approach succeeded in suppressing contrary views in the mainstream media, despite the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/11/editorial-interference-by-the-abcs-chairman/</link>
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		<title>Polls show privatisation hurting Bligh, and Rudd</title>
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		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/11/polls-show-privatisation-hurting-bligh-and-rudd/</link>
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		<title>One day that shook the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-five years ago today, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union by a unanimous vote of the CPSU Politburo.  Rather than attempting to provide a comprehensive chronicle and analysis of Gorbachev&#8217;s time as leader, reformer and unintentional dissolver of the Soviet Union, I&#8217;d like to take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/11/one-day-that-shook-the-world/</link>
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		<title>I won&#8217;t add my condemn to your condemn XLIII (mid week edition)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s Wednesday already and we haven&#8217;t condemned, so it must be long past time to condemn again. Here’s a 43rd open condemnation thread. What’s been worthy of condemnation this week so far? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, and other phenomena need condemnation? (Or loud denunciation?)
You can condemn anything you like except Shostakovich.

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		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/10/i-wont-add-my-condemn-to-your-condemn-xliii-mid-week-edition/</link>
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		<title>Coalition shows it doesn&#8217;t care about equal pay for women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing in Crikey the other day, Eloise Keating suggested that &#8220;if Abbott wants to woo women, he should start with wages&#8221;:
Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show Australian women earned just 82.5% of the average male rate of pay across the country in 2009. On average, a female worker would have earned more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/10/coalition-shows-it-doesnt-care-about-equal-pay-for-women/</link>
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		<title>So, how about that hospitals plan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott&#8217;s performance in question time today, and the timing of his parental leave thought bubble more generally, suggest that his major imperative was to switch the topic of debate from health. That&#8217;s despite the Coalition running a very active scare campaign about hospital closures in the bush, but it&#8217;s probably because of the polling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/10/so-how-about-that-hospitals-plan/</link>
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		<title>Reaction to Abbott&#8217;s parental leave plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As noted, Abbott&#8217;s International Women&#8217;s Day announcement of a paid parental leave plan has created a lot of debate here on LP [read previous threads here]. And it&#8217;s attracted a lot of commentary in the wider blogosphere and media.
Gary Sauer-Thompson at Public Opinion has a handle on the politics:
So the Coalition&#8217;s strategy [of] messing with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/10/reaction-to-abbotts-parental-leave-plan/</link>
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		<title>Monbiot vs. the solar entrepreneur, with a bit of Rickover thrown in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you interested in feed-in tariffs for solar energy might be interested in reading the multi-post discussion between George Monbiot and Jeremy ]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/10/monbiot-vs-the-solar-entrepreneur-with-a-bit-of-rickover-thrown-in/</link>
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		<title>Unfairness and Abbott&#8217;s parental leave non-policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot has been said about Tony Abbott&#8217;s parental leave speech yesterday and today on this blog, on these two threads. As I suspected would occur, most of the qualifications and the actual non-policy aspect of the policy were not reported in today&#8217;s press, and the general line was that Abbott&#8217;s scheme was &#8216;better&#8217;, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/03/09/unfairness-and-abbotts-parental-leave-non-policy/</link>
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