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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Money</title>
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	<description>A weblog dedicated to Mary MacKillop</description>
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		<title>COLES: how to profit from fresh corpses.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/coles-how-to-profit-from-fresh-corpses</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coles advertisement in today’s paper: “There’s no FRESHNESS like Coles FRESHNESS”.
Referring to fruit and vegetables.
When will we see them sloganise: “There’s no exploitation of addicts like Coles exploitation of addicts”?
If you want to buy anything in Coles, you must enter through the gate and exit through the check-out.
Anything?
Not quite . . . .
* * *
If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MORE LYING IN POLITICS: Gillard etc: do we really deserve these characters?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/more-lying-in-politics-gillard-etc-do-we-really-deserve-these-characters</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After last election Julia Gillard promised Independent MP, Mr Wilkie, that she would legislate for mandatory pre-commitment for high-intensity poker machines by 2014.
That was enough to buy his support in forming a government.
Did she ever intend to keep her promise?
Now she has got around to saying she isn’t going to do it.
* * *
The government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GILLARD, WILKIE: stoush over poker machine &#8220;reforms&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/gillard-wilkie-stoush-over-poker-machine-reforms</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal MP, Andrew Wilkie, threatens to stop supporting the Gillard government if they don’t legislate poker machine reform.
He wants to compel gamblers using high-intensity machines (which accept $10 bets) to pre-commit to a limit on their losses before they start playing.
When their loss reaches the cap, the machine will lock them out.
Low intensity machines (accepting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;COTTON ON&#8221; etc: leaders in anti-woman, anti-family, anti-good taste fashion mentality?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/cotton-on-leader-in-anti-woman-anti-family-anti-good-taste-fashionable-mentality-promotions</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/cotton-on-leader-in-anti-woman-anti-family-anti-good-taste-fashionable-mentality-promotions#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year girls’ jewellery company DIVA ran &#8212; alongside their promotions for Disney Princesses etc. &#8212; Playboy accessories including Playmate and Miss January pendants.
Over 6800 Australians signed a petition complaining about this . . . .
And by early November received assurances from DIVA that the offending promotions would stop.
Which they did.
* * *
However there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOXING DAY: a funny day</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/boxing-day-a-funny-day</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/boxing-day-a-funny-day#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 26 is listed as a &#8220;Christmas Day Holiday” in Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia.
Nations which have 4%, 10% and 2% Catholic populations.
What is the point of them having such a rash of Christian observances . . . ?
It&#8217;s good to see, anyway.
* * *
What about Australia, with its nominally majority Christian population?
Here December 26 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POKER MACHINES: Is greed good? Getting some perspective.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/poker-machines-is-greed-good-getting-some-perspective</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/poker-machines-is-greed-good-getting-some-perspective#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 5000 people recently participated in a gambling survey on the website of federal opposition front-bencher, Malcolm Turnbull
More than 60 percent said they support laws compelling gamblers using “high-intensity” machines (those accepting $10 dollar bets) to set a limit on their losses before starting to play.
Australia has 200,000 high-intensity poker machines in operation.
Gamblers routinely lose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAKING ALCOHOL BINGE-DRINKING FASHIONABLE FOR FUN AND PROFIT: Cotton On doing the wrong thing again.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/making-alcohol-binge-drinking-fashionable-for-fun-and-profit-cotton-on-doing-the-wrong-thing-again</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/making-alcohol-binge-drinking-fashionable-for-fun-and-profit-cotton-on-doing-the-wrong-thing-again#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fashion clothing company, Cotton On, is being sued by Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC.
Cotton On recalled a range of sleepwear in November 2010 after the ACCC discovered the products weren’t up to fire safety standards &#8212; despite carrying a “low fire danger” label.
Cotton On continued selling the pyjamas into 2011, according to an ACCC statement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCCUPY MELBOURNE PROTESTERS AND THE POLICE: was their civil disobedience justified?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/occupy-melbourne-protesters-and-the-police-was-their-civil-disobedience-justified</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/occupy-melbourne-protesters-and-the-police-was-their-civil-disobedience-justified#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 15, a group calling themselves Occupy Melbourne moved into the City Square, set up 40-odd tents and announced that they were staying indefinitely.
Each day, they marched through the streets, obstructing intersections and holding protest meetings outside buildings of which they disapproved (the Serco office, the Melbourne Club, the Stock Exchange).
They were warned by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POVERTY WEEK: who’s who and what are they trying to do?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/poverty-week-who%e2%80%99s-who-and-what-are-they-trying-to-do</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/poverty-week-who%e2%80%99s-who-and-what-are-they-trying-to-do#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 17 is United Nations’ Anti-Poverty Day.
October 16 to 22 is designated by some as Anti-Poverty Week.
A Brisbane group calling itself Micah Projects – government-funded, but with churchly connections &#8212; has unearthed some relevant statistics:
e.g. in the Brisbane area:
* 14.8% of households have a weekly income under $500;
* over 10,000 jobless households with children aged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE POLITICS OF CARBON AND WATER AND ALCOHOL: logic-free slogans and greed are winning again.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/the-politics-of-carbon-water-and-alcohol-logic-free-slogan-and-greed-are-winning-again</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/the-politics-of-carbon-water-and-alcohol-logic-free-slogan-and-greed-are-winning-again#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report entitled, “Caring for our Australian Alps Catchments: Summary Report for Policy Makers” was released by Mr Greg Combet, Minister for Climate Change, last Monday, 10 October 2011.
It says that about 1000 gigalitres of water – 30 percent of total Murray-Darling flow – come from Australian Alps catchments, and are worth $9.6 billion per [...]]]></description>
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