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	<title>Ben Dechrau &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>Senator Stephen Fielding Seeing Spots</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2009/06/10/senator-stephen-fielding-seeing-spots</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Family First Senator Stephen Fielding has just returned from a study tour in America and is now undecided about the effect of carbon emissions on global warming.
While the solar flares debate, which Senator Fielding has recently cottoned on to, has been around for many years, no evidence exists to link them to the current warming, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howard and Rudd get on just fine!</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/11/09/howard-and-rudd-get-on-just-fine</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who says Howard and Rudd don&#8217;t get along? Google&#8217;s 2007 Australian Federal Election site allows you to view Australian election content in Google Maps.

The most useful information comes when you zoom in to see what the politicians are up to, and as you can see from these screen shotlets.

Unfortunately I can&#8217;t seem to get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK brings in laws to force supply of encryption keys or unencrypted data</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/10/03/uk-brings-in-laws-to-force-supply-of-encryption-keys-or-unencrypted-data</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/10/03/uk-brings-in-laws-to-force-supply-of-encryption-keys-or-unencrypted-data#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In another step towards total government control of its people, the UK is planning to enforce Part 3, Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which will authorise authorities to obtain encryption keys or any encrypted data in unencrypted form in relation to any anti-terrorism investigations.
While this privacy freak understands the nation&#8217;s requirement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;re shooting monks in Burma!</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/09/27/theyre-shooting-monks-in-burma</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/09/27/theyre-shooting-monks-in-burma#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Burma is ruled by one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world. For decades the Burmese regime has fought off pressure&#8211;imprisoning elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy activists, wiping out thousands of villages, imposing forced labour, creating refugees.
But last Tuesday Buddhist monks and nuns, revered in Burma, began marching and chanting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;re not alone!</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/07/15/theyre-not-alone</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just saw one of those &#8220;authorised by the Australian Government, Canberra&#8221; type Work Places adverts. The opening line went something along the lines of:
The biggest myth is that employees are alone and unprotected, but that&#8217;s just not true. They are not alone!
Read between the lines. Tell me why I laughed!
[Updated quote on July 16th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performance-based pay for teachers</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/06/12/performance-based-pay-for-teachers</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/06/12/performance-based-pay-for-teachers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the raging success of performance-based pay for teachers in America, Australia&#8217;s Federal Education Minister, Julie Bishop, today announced that a trial for the same will start in 2009.
The proof of the success of this method of paying teachers is evidenced by the fact that teachers in America have been said to give students some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fox News distort their own poll results</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/04/05/fox-news-distort-their-own-poll-results</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/04/05/fox-news-distort-their-own-poll-results#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Crooks and Liars, a poll by Fox News shows Britney Spears was voted the most foolish American.
The top 5 looked like this:

Britney Spears: 33%
Paris Hilton: 12%
Mel Gibson: 1%
OJ Simpson: 13%
Pres. George Bush: 40%

Now perhaps this is an April Fool&#8217;s joke, or maybe Fox News are distorting the poll results. I cannot find the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Together We Can Close Guantanamo Bay Prison</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/04/04/together-we-can-close-guantanamo-bay-prison</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/04/04/together-we-can-close-guantanamo-bay-prison#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I thought you would like to know about this new campaign to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, where President Bush is holding nearly 400 detainees without criminal charges or trials. For the first time, some of his top advisors have called for closing this affront to international law, including his own Secretary of Defense. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Access cards to protect personal identity</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/03/16/access-cards-to-protect-personal-identity</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/03/16/access-cards-to-protect-personal-identity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard a news article on a radio show this morning on the planned &#8220;health and social services access card&#8221;. The idea is this card will reduce the red tape involved with accessing government services such as Medicare and Centrelink.
Interestingly, the government is planning to place a photo of the card holder on the card, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>File sharing</title>
		<link>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/03/15/file-sharing</link>
		<comments>http://ben.dechrau.com/2007/03/15/file-sharing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dechrau</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USPTO&#8217;s Office of International relations released a report in November 2006 titled Filesharing Programs and &#8220;Technological Features to Induce Users to Share&#8221;.
Their view is that many peer-to-peer file sharing applications include technological features that make it easy for people to inadvertently share files they might not want to, such as copyrighted material and last [...]]]></description>
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