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	<description>Robert's Rambling Ruminations Regarding Reality</description>
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		<title>Warning: get off housing gravy train &#8211; ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/warning-get-off-housing-gravy-train-abc-news-australian-broadcasting-corporation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an opinion page on the ABC News page about the increasing rise in house prices (and the subsequent fall in housing affordability). The solution presented: build more housing (not necessarily houses &#8211; apartments are okay too), thus increasing the supply. Unfortunately, that won&#8217;t help.

(All figures and quotes come from the ABS, particularly their Housing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wage growth does not automatically equate to inflationary pressure&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/wage-growth-does-not-automatically-equate-to-inflationary-pressure/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2009/07/wage-growth-does-not-automatically-equate-to-inflationary-pressure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my coworkers tossed out this line today: &#8220;We can&#8217;t just increase the minimum wage, because that would cause inflation&#8221;. I said at the time that didn&#8217;t have to be the case, and I just thought I&#8217;d capture my reasoning in writing.

Inflation occurs because prices go up. Prices go up because:
a) costs have gone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We apologised for the wrong thing</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2008/02/we-apologised-for-the-wrong-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2008/02/we-apologised-for-the-wrong-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today our Prime Minister made an important step in Australian history, by apologising to indigenous Australians for past injustices. However, I think the focus on the so-called Stolen Generation was wrong.

It is true that successive Australian governments did take indigenous children from their parents, that they did so in large numbers, and that this did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still no tax reform</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2006/05/still-no-tax-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2006/05/still-no-tax-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2006 23:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<title>This is why company funded pensions are a bad idea&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/09/this-is-why-company-funded-pensions-are-a-bad-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/09/this-is-why-company-funded-pensions-are-a-bad-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sigh&#8230; how could anyone make a living by killing pension plans? I mean, really.
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		<title>More on income diversity</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/09/more-on-income-diversity/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/09/more-on-income-diversity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An off-hand statement in the editorial of The Australian today went like this:
Even after the threshold changes in the May budget, the top 5 per cent of taxpayers are going to be paying a quarter of Australia&#8217;s net income tax
(Look in the section about Peter Costello)

Well, as I noted earlier, the top 20% of Australians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Income diversity</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/09/income-diversity/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/09/income-diversity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To quote the New York Times

This week&#8217;s census report showed that income inequality was near all-time highs in 2004, with 50.1 percent of income going to the top 20 percent of households. And additional census data obtained by the Economic Policy Institute show that only the top 5 percent of households experienced real income gains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m sorry, I can&#8217;t believe this one&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/09/im-sorry-i-cant-believe-this-one/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/09/im-sorry-i-cant-believe-this-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2005 22:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw this as a comment on Russel Beattie&#8217;s blog: dozens of buses flooded out in New Orleans.

This is just bloody ridiculous. There&#8217;s probably close to a hundred buses there. Why weren&#8217;t they used in the pre-hurricane evacuation? Why weren&#8217;t they moved to higher ground if they weren&#8217;t used in the evacuation? Those buses represent 10,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schiavo case was not about the &#8220;right to live&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/04/schiavo-case-was-not-about-the-right-to-live/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/04/schiavo-case-was-not-about-the-right-to-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sick of reading articles like this one in the NY Times about how the Schiavo case was about the &#8220;right to live&#8221; vs. the &#8220;right to die&#8221;. This, frankly, is BS. What this fight was about is the extent that power of attorney goes.

Put simply: had Mr Schiavo wanted his wife to live, she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The private sector will never roll out broadband to the bush</title>
		<link>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/03/the-private-sector-will-never-roll-out-broadband-to-the-bush/</link>
		<comments>http://twasink.net/blog/2005/03/the-private-sector-will-never-roll-out-broadband-to-the-bush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that the tradition of the National Party leader selling out the party&#8217;s constituents whenever it conflicts with Liberal Party policy is alive and well.
A National Party think tank came up with the ]]></description>
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