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<title><![CDATA[Toothless Sharks sink as Dogs bite]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A 40-minute offloading blitz blew Cronulla out of the water last night. Without Paul Gallen and Todd Carney, the Sharks, who were a shadow of the team that soared into premiership reckoning last Sunday, never looked like coming away from ANZ Stadium with the two points against Canterbury, who have transformed into a touch football-playing team of halfbacks under Des Hasler.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Carbon tax may hurt natural disaster zones]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Residents of areas hit by natural disasters could face carbon tax bills from rubbish dumps.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Saving the species: this tiny two-year-old is the right possum for the job]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the country's rarest mammals and Victoria's faunal emblem will be the subject of a captive breeding program.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Introducing Myer's fashion Cupid]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Salon queen matches her clients with the perfect clothes.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[This NSW outfit can be guaranteed not to take a backward step]]></title>
<link>http://www.maribyrnongweekly.com.au/news/national/national/sport/this-nsw-outfit-can-be-guaranteed-not-to-take-a-backward-step/2564085.aspx?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A lock sentenced to jail, a five-eighth who has been warned he faces jail, a captain who a Herald columnist once wrote should be in jail and a fullback who spent 18 months fighting allegations that would have landed him in jail are among the players who give NSW the best chance of winning Origin for seven years.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cut Demons' pay, says former great]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[David Schwarz claims dysfunctional playing group deserves only 75 per cent of salary cap.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stanton: from whipping boy to stealth Bomber]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Essendon midfielder one of the most improved players in the competition.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Specialist role must maintain high standards]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The oversupply of player managers is causing protocol problems.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jetta first culprit charged with staging]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Long-promised crackdown on staging has claimed its first culprit.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Track feud not personal: O'Brien]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Top trainer says he and other entitled to use social media to make their views known.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tit for tat as Liberal MP cops it as payback]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE government has referred the NSW Liberal MP Craig Kelly to Parliament's privileges committee as payback for the opposition's pursuit of Craig Thomson.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Two decades after Mabo, court set to recognise Lake Eyre native title]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE Federal Court is expected today to recognise native title over Lake Eyre in a special hearing at Finniss Springs Station south of the Oodnadatta Track.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Support grows for 10¢ container deposit plan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WITH signs of growing support around the country for compulsory container deposit schemes, two NSW MPs have announced they will introduce legislation to ensure a 10¢ refundable deposit paid on all drink containers sold in the state.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MP ticked the right boxes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IT LOOKS like the government has got away with it. That's what the Craig Thomson excitement was all about yesterday - can the Gillard government, with its wafer-thin advantage, survive his statement to Parliament?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The sickening sound of an axe on its victim, a plaintive plea … and silence]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Once more a member of the Milat clan visits horror on a family.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Greiner swallows entitlement cuts]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A FORMER premier, Nick Greiner, yesterday said he would not take legal action against the O'Farrell government in response to its decision to cut back his taxpayer-funded entitlements.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Defer Gonski's funding reforms, private schools urge]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FEDERAL reform of school funding is increasingly unlikely with a key private-school lobby group saying the government's new model cannot be implemented in its present form and calling for a two-year extension of the existing system.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Three new boats, but asylum seekers on decline]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE number of asylum seekers coming to Australia has dropped by 9 per cent, at the same time as global asylum seeker flows increased by 20 per cent.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Engineering jobs to go as Qantas consolidates]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[QANTAS has indicated it will eventually close its aircraft maintenance base at Avalon Airport near Geelong, after its decision to slash 535 engineering positions and close a base at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport by August.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rail lines shut down for weekend]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[TRAIN users face a weekend without services through the city, a week after the Transport Minister, Gladys Berejiklian, declared RailCorp has been incapable of properly managing trackwork.]]></description>
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