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	<title>Last Straw &#187; 2008 NZ Election</title>
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		<title>A word of thanks to National and ACT voters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick word of thanks to all those National and ACT voters out there in NZ, especially those who were in a “mood for change,” because now you’ve got it. A government of radical right-wingers, many proven untrustworthy in the 80s and 90s, ready to turn New Zealand upside down and shake. Almost everything&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>‘There’s going to be a lot of hurt for a lot of people’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh New Zealand, what have you done? Roger Douglas on election night fantasising about the mandate he thinks he has: We have to make some changes and there’s going to be a lot of hurt for a lot of people. What a cheek, coming from the scoundrel who lied his way into government in the eighties,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>2008 NZ election: garbage in, garbage out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a representative democracy it’s not democracy’s purpose to produce good government but to produce representative government. While I don’t expect much in the way of democracy from representative democracy1 enough New Zealanders voted against their interests on Saturday to elect into government a multimillionaire merchant banker Prime Minister and his self-interested fat cat accomplices, including some of those&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Please don’t let our democracy slip away NZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a myriad of reasons I hope you don’t vote National this Saturday, such as their record on selling off the country or their keenness to send Kiwi kids off to get killed in illegal wars to curry favour, but if there’s just one reason it’s this: our democracy. National wants to take away&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>NZ Election: Rodney Hide chasing the redneck vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No Right Turn on Rodney Hide’s recent comments about the Maori Party and its potential to influence the next government.]]></description>
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