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<description><![CDATA[The latest from Nambucca Guardian News]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Catalogue of errors puts man in way of a train]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA["Righto mate, blocks are on."]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Escape leads to security upgrade]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PATIENTS will be more closely monitored while on leave from psychiatric centres and when using the internet after an institutionalised killer allegedly assaulted a man he had met online while out on day release.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sacking sparks hospital board row]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE high-powered board of the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network is in turmoil after the Health Minister, Jillian Skinner, removed its chairman, Roger Corbett, in a dispute over the moving of a senior health executive.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Star staff warned not to discuss sacking online or with media]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE management of The Star casino has ordered staff not to speak to the media or discuss the company on social media as it tries to manage the fallout from the sacking of its former managing director Sid Vaikunta.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Agents, vendors hold breath for buyers to brave unchanged lending rates]]></title>
<link>http://www.nambuccaguardian.com.au/news/national/national/general/agents-vendors-hold-breath-for-buyers-to-brave-unchanged-lending-rates/2449226.aspx?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[THE Reserve Bank's decision not to cut interest rates has dealt a blow to the confidence of buyers and smothered a real estate market that was in the tentative stages of a recovery, agents warn.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Four Corners has Labor sides on edge]]></title>
<link>http://www.nambuccaguardian.com.au/news/national/national/general/four-corners-has-labor-sides-on-edge/2449225.aspx?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[KEVIN RUDD is refusing to grant an interview to the ABC's Four Corners program as both sides of the leadership divide grow increasingly paranoid about an upcoming episode about Mr Rudd and Labor.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gay couple lose son over child sex fears]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AN AUSTRALIAN gay couple have had their six-year-old son taken from them by child protection authorities in Los Angeles while the FBI and Queensland Police investigate allegations that they are members of an international paedophile ring. The men, who insist on their innocence, have told the Herald: "It looks really bad."]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australia's link to secret Iraq prisons]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AUSTRALIA was an ''integral'' element of the potentially illegal detention of prisoners of war at a secret Iraqi desert prison in 2003, according to a British newspaper, citing a US military document.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Survivors seek VC for captain and all who sailed]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[''IT WAS more or less a forgotten episode,'' said Frank McGovern, who as a 22-year-old World War II Navy able seaman saw the deadly Sunda Strait action from the upper deck of HMAS Perth, which eventually killed his captain.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Plain-pack case strong, says Roxon]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE Gillard government has defended the constitutional legitimacy of its plain cigarette packaging laws, arguing that restricting how tobacco companies use their trademarks does not amount to an acquisition of property.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gillard riled as Abbott links tax to job losses]]></title>
<link>http://www.nambuccaguardian.com.au/news/national/national/general/gillard-riled-as-abbott-links-tax-to-job-losses/2449199.aspx?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[JULIA GILLARD has branded the opposition ''disgusting'' for trying to link the carbon tax to potential job losses in the aluminium sector as manufacturing shifted to the centre of the national economic debate.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Decision to quarantine Katter cash angers ministers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[CABINET ministers scratching for savings to meet the government's pledge to return the budget to surplus have been angered by a decision to quarantine hundreds of millions of dollars for a pet project of the colourful Queensland independent Bob Katter that is not yet economically viable.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Carbon levy booklet fails fact check]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE 20-page colour booklet What a Carbon Price Means for You, which was mailed to 10 million households in August, may become something of a collectors item.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Implant advice review]]></title>
<link>http://www.nambuccaguardian.com.au/news/national/national/general/implant-advice-review/2449196.aspx?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[THE federal health regulator's handling of the faulty breast implants will be examined by a Senate committee.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Post-stroke care less likely for Aborigines - study]]></title>
<link>http://www.nambuccaguardian.com.au/news/national/national/general/poststroke-care-less-likely-for-aborigines-study/2449195.aspx?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[INDIGENOUS people who suffer a stroke are less likely to receive life-saving care than non-indigenous people treated in the same hospitals, a national audit has found.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Concern over complex laws on surrogacy]]></title>
<link>http://www.nambuccaguardian.com.au/news/national/national/general/concern-over-complex-laws-on-surrogacy/2449194.aspx?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[THERE is little to stop Australian men or women from bringing into the country a child born to a surrogate mother overseas providing one of the ''intended'' parents has a genetic link to the child and the birth mother has formally relinquished her rights.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Excavator tragedy widow still to give birth]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The wife of the demolition site worker crushed by an excavator bucket in south-west Sydney has not yet given birth, the construction union says.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:15:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What a stitch up:  Julia Gillard gets the needle]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[She runs the country, keeps house for Our Tim and  Julia Gillard is also a knitter.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hundreds of jobs under threat at Alcoa aluminium smelter]]></title>
<link>http://www.nambuccaguardian.com.au/news/national/national/general/hundreds-of-jobs-under-threat-at-alcoa-aluminium-smelter/2448842.aspx?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Alcoa has announced a review of its operations at its Point Henry smelter in Geelong, Victoria. It is expected to be finished by June, when the company will decide on the future of the smelter and the jobs of 700 workers. Here's how the story broke online.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How do you tell someone they're fat?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Commenting on another person's weight is dangerous. But medical experts agree that to say nothing is more cruel.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:36:33 GMT</pubDate>
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