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		<title>Free Trade ? Same Item &#8211; China Imposes 30% Import Duty, Australia Just 5%</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 02:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agmate Andrew Moyle Colonial Leather at Bendigo Vic writes from China: . As for Tariffs, I have campaigned long and hard, met with members of parliament and ministers in the... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.agmates.com/herald/free-trade-same-item-china-imposes-30-import-duty-australia-just-5/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Picked Off By A Deadly Sniper &#8211;  One Australian Agriculture Industry at a Time.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Trade is the deadly sniper that is methodically killing off Australian agriculture industries just as it has our manufacturing industry. You the reader like most people probably think that&#8217;s... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.agmates.com/herald/picked-off-by-a-deadly-sniper-one-australian-agriculture-industry-at-a-time/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kevin Rudd And Labor Destroying Jobs In Rural Australia With New Export Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/herald/kevin-rudd-and-labor-destroying-jobs-in-rural-australia-with-new-export-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his Labor team have once again plucked the Goose that lays the golden egg &#8211; Australian Agriculture. Labors urban boy wonder, Agriculture Minister Tony... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.agmates.com/herald/kevin-rudd-and-labor-destroying-jobs-in-rural-australia-with-new-export-tax/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>USA Pumps Billions Into Rural &amp; Regional Communities</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/herald/usa-pumps-billions-into-rural-regional-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/herald/usa-pumps-billions-into-rural-regional-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USA is pumping Billions directly into its farm sector in an effort to jump start rural &#38; regional communities economy. WASHINGTON, March 9, 2009 &#8211; Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.agmates.com/herald/usa-pumps-billions-into-rural-regional-communities/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>South American Beef Anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Agriculture minister Tony Burke and Trade Minister Simon Crean have taken great pride in announcing the following Free Trade initiatives this week. Thrown open the doors to a flood... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.agmates.com/herald/south-american-beef-anyone/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What a Week For The Free Traders</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a week it&#8217;s been for the rabid supporters of Free Trade. Amazing how all of this has been announced the week that the Director-General of the World Trade Organization... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.agmates.com/herald/what-a-week-for-the-free-traders/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Free Trade A Mythological Dream for Governments &#8211; A Nightmare for Farmers</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/herald/free-trade-a-mythological-dream-for-governments-a-nightmare-for-farmers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/herald/free-trade-a-mythological-dream-for-governments-a-nightmare-for-farmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incompetent politicians on both sides of the Tasman have bargained away our Agriculture industries in their rush to embrace global free trade. ABC&#8217;s Lateline host Tony Jone&#8217;s interview with World... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.agmates.com/herald/free-trade-a-mythological-dream-for-governments-a-nightmare-for-farmers/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Simon Crean Asean Free Trade Agreement Opens Australia Up to a Flood of Cheap Imports</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia&#8217;s trade minister Simon Crean is crowing about the new Free trade deal he has just signed Australia up to. AUSTRALIA will open its markets completely to imports from the... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.agmates.com/herald/simon-crean-asean-free-trade-agreement-opens-australia-up-to-a-flood-of-cheap-imports/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Australia The Stupidest Nation On Earth #4 &#8211; I&#8217;m Feeling Like Winston Churchill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agmates editor Steve Truman writes: I&#8217;m feeling like Winston Churchill must have felt when Neville Chamberlain was British PM and his and the governments policy of the day was to... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.agmates.com/herald/australia-the-stupidest-nation-on-earth-4-im-feeling-like-winston-churchill/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We Hope You Love Eating Chinese</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese food imports into Australia have exploded in the last 3 years. Mega tonnages of Chinese produce have flooded Australian shores in the past six months, nudging Australian farmers off... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.agmates.com/herald/we-hope-you-love-eating-chinese/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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