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<title><![CDATA[Putting the fun into feminism]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[These new poster girls like their bras and know how to have a chuckle, writes ANNIE STEVENS.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hospital computer system found lacking]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE computer system that runs emergency departments across NSW is chronically underfunded and produces inadequate patient records, according to an independent report commissioned after some hospitals last year lost so much confidence in the software they returned to manual record-keeping.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Turning point for sex-change teens]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new case may review approval for treatment in adolescents, writes Julie Robotham.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gloom and boom - Sydney counts the cost of a shocking summer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[JOE GIRGENTI has been driving ice-cream vans for 26 years. But his five trucks have spent much of the past few months tucked under a carport. ''It's been the worst summer that I've had,'' he said. ''There are no people. It's raining or it's windy or it's cold.'']]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stealing for affection, not money]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The millions bought apartments she never lived in, jewellery she never wore and the attention she craved, write Paul Bibby and Lisa Davies.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Going, going - six years later, gone]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IT TOOK eight real estate agencies, seven price drops and almost six years to sell but the former site of Moog Wine + Food has finally changed hands.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Framed: the untold story about the Croatian Six]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Was the jailing of six Croatians a counter-terrorism coup for Australia or a set-up by foreign spies? Hamish McDonald chronicles the case that devastated a community.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Video boast - how I shot the Diggers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE Afghan soldier who gunned down three Australian Diggers last year has gloated about his attack and told how his unit comrades fantasised about launching similar jihad operations.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[There's no such thing as a good divorce: the kids always suffer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[EVEN a ''good'' divorce may not protect children from the fall-out of a marriage breakdown.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Writing's on the wall for blue collar work]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sydney's outer suburbs are bearing the brunt of job losses, writes Stuart Washington.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Prince of wails: how a royal abroad missed his mistress]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Illicit love gets an airing on Valentine's Day at the State Library, writes Steve Meacham.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vote on alternative medicine falls victim to dark arts of the internet]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[LATE last month the Herald reported on a lobby group of more than 400 doctors, medical researchers and scientists - dubbed Friends of Science in Medicine - pressuring universities to close down alternative medicine degrees, arguing the practices have no scientific basis.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Treasurer angry as banks warn of more rate rises]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ANZ and Westpac have warned they could again raise mortgage rates without a signal from the Reserve Bank, because of continued uncertainty in global money markets.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Key questions for banks]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why are banks lifting their mortgage rates after the Reserve Bank left official interest rates unchanged?]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Abbott silent on Coalition plans for health means test]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has pledged to fight government plans to means test the private health insurance rebate ''every step of the way'' but refused to commit to rescinding the measures if elected to government.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Made to last ... but not forever]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As manufacturing's decline bites hard in Sydney's west, old hands cherish the skills of a passing era. Stuart Washington reports.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Girls at greater risk of suicide since intervention]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE rate of suicide among Aboriginal girls is believed to have greatly increased since the Northern Territory emergency intervention was introduced five years ago to combat systemic child abuse and neglect.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Anxious residents brace for rising waters but threat of crime wave ebbs]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE Queensland experience had them worried.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dash for Chinese jackpot can bring its own set of problems]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Attracting the big money can be a high-stakes game, writes Deborah Snow.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Young ace keen to cut it with the high rollers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[MOST junior surfers would quake in their boardies at the prospect of meeting Joel Parkinson or Taj Burrow in a first-round heat.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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