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	<title>AGMates Trader News &#187; Nick Xenophon</title>
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		<title>Gladstone Workers are Meat In The Sandwich in Rio Tinto BHP Billiton Deal</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/gladstone-workers-are-meat-in-the-sandwich-in-rio-tinto-bhp-billiton-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freelance Journalist and Agmates member John Mikkelsen writes:
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A fog of uncertainty still surrounds Gladstone&#8217;s Rio Tinto workers after the company last week finally rejected the Chinese bid to acquire a $27 billion slice of the action.
On face value, it seems the best solution to Rio&#8217;s financial woes. The formation of an iron ore production joint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wayne Swans Harvey Norman Budget &#8211; Buy Now Pay Later</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/wayne-swans-harvey-norman-budget-buy-now-pay-later/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/wayne-swans-harvey-norman-budget-buy-now-pay-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 03:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=5606</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Agmates member and freelance journalist John Mikkelsen writes:
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THE build-up to this week&#8217;s Federal Budget reminds me of the hype over swine flu &#8211; it was going to be a shocker but turned out to be a bit of a fizzer as far as horror stories go.
A deficit of almost $58 billion instead of the $20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nick Xenophon Calls for Immediate Federal Government Take-Over of The Murray Darling River System</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/nick-xenophon-calls-for-immediate-federal-government-take-over-of-the-murray-darling-river-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 02:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent Senator for South Australia Nick Xenophon writes:
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A decision by the Victorian Government to abandon a 10% limit on the amount of Murray-Darling water that can be traded is proof the restriction was wrong.
The move comes after the South Australian Government threatened to contest the legality of the Victorian restriction in the High Court &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xenophon Rolls Over &#8211; At a huge Cost To Rural &amp; Regional Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/xenophon-rolls-over-at-a-huge-cost-to-rural-regional-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/xenophon-rolls-over-at-a-huge-cost-to-rural-regional-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent Senator from South Australia Nick Xenopkon despite his bluff and bluster about standing up for the people of the Murray Darling basin has rolled over this morning and voted with the Rudd government to pass the $42b stimulus package.
Shadow Minister for Agriculture, John Cobb [pictured]writes from Canberra this morning.
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I am genuinely appalled that every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Rejects Stimulus Package &#8211; Change Of Attitude Needed</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/senate-rejects-stimulus-package-change-of-attitude-needed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/senate-rejects-stimulus-package-change-of-attitude-needed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=3601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Senate today voted down the Government&#8217;s legislation, implementing the $2billion stimulus package. The bill was defeated in the senate after independent senator Nick Xenophon voted with the Coalition.
The Australian Greens and Family First&#8217;s Steve Fielding voted with the Government, tying the vote at 35-35. Senator Xenophon&#8217;s vote blocked the bill.
Nationals leader in the Senate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xenophon &#8211; Wong Hiding Murray Darling Audit Report</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/xenophon-wong-hiding-murray-darling-audit-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/xenophon-wong-hiding-murray-darling-audit-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=3095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Independent Senator Nick Xenophon [pictured] writes:
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The government must immediately release the results of a full audit of all water in the Murray-Darling Basin.
In August last year I called on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to conduct a full audit of the basin so we all could see where the water is, who owns it and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nick Xenophon Attacks Rudd&#8217;s ETS, Ag Minister Tony Burke defends It</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/nick-xenophon-attacks-rudds-ets-ag-minister-tony-burke-defends-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/nick-xenophon-attacks-rudds-ets-ag-minister-tony-burke-defends-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=2641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no way Independent senator Nick Xenophon will support the Rudd governments emission trading scheme in its current form.
Senator Xenophon [pictured] said the Government&#8217;s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme would lead to a massive churn of funds from industry and households to government and back as compensation, as well as higher-than-anticipated costs.
He pointed to modelling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shutting The Gate After The Horse has Bolted</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/shutting-the-gate-after-the-horse-has-bolted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/shutting-the-gate-after-the-horse-has-bolted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=2238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Farmers Federation is pursuing their bizarre policy of jumping up and down after legislation has been passed and the horse has bolted.
Both the National Farmers Federation and the Victorian Farmers Federation have called on the government to level the taxation playing field after last week&#8217;s decision by the Full Bench of the Federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tougher Competition Laws Required Not a $4 million Dollar a Year Web Site</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/tougher-competition-laws-required-not-a-4-million-dollar-a-year-web-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/tougher-competition-laws-required-not-a-4-million-dollar-a-year-web-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent Senator for South Australia Nick Xenophon writes:
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The best way to give consumers real choice at the supermarket would be for the government to reduce the market control of Coles and Woolworths through tougher competition laws.
These two players control a staggering 80 per cent of the market.
That gives them too much power over suppliers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Political Heros and Villains.</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/our-political-heros-and-villans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[.
I spoke with Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce [pictured] by phone Saturday morning. Barnaby asked me to pass onto the Agmates community his thanks for our support over the past week.
At the end of a tumultuous week that could be the beginning of the end of the Federal Coalition Senator Joyce had just met with [...]]]></description>
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