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<description><![CDATA[The latest from Queensland Country Life]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pip Courtney takes Landline's centre stage]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IT'S been almost 26 years since a young ABC cadet from Tasmania began her career in journalism and current affairs.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sewing his way to success]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[GUNNEDAH isn’t the only town able to boast a fashion icon in model Miranda Kerr, with the spotlight recently turned on Moree’s up-and-coming fashion designer Dylan Cooper.
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[‘We need farmers’]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[GOVERNOR-General Quentin Bryce used her Australia Day address to highlight the importance of careers in agriculture and the vitality of farmers for all Australians.
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NFF welcomes broadband committment]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has welcomed the announcement by the Prime Minister that two satellites will be built to deliver high speed broadband to regional and remote Australia.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India’s rural crush]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[STARVATION and suicide plagues India’s farmers and rural poor more severely today than it did prior to the country’s green revolution.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fears flood-risk map will hit insurance cover]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A NATIONAL flood-risk map to be managed by the federal government will be used by insurers as a cover to raise premiums unnecessarily, according to consumer advocates.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Joyce battles floods at home]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[QUEENSLAND Senator Barnaby Joyce has missed the start of federal parliament for 2012 to roll up his sleeves back home in the inland town of St George and help the local community battle devastating floods.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Four Corners has Labor sides on edge]]></title>
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<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 21:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Flood anger as disaster strikes again]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE irate mayor of the flood-damaged Balonne Shire wants to know why State Government authorities turned their back on her region and failed to help prepare for this year's flood disaster.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Down came the rain and washed the spiders out]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IF you thought that white blanket across this road east of Moree was fog, think again.
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Balonne’s bank buster]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FARMERS along the Narran, Culgoa, Bokhara and Birrie river systems in the State’s far north are preparing for what are expected to be among the biggest flows since European settlement.
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rural school buses run on empty]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[SCHOOL bus contracts in rural South Australia are being granted to large companies, leaving small regional operators and drivers out of work.
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[$620m NBN satellites to connect remotest towns]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Gillard government has announced that the National Broadband Network will spend $620 million on two new satellites to connect some of Australia's most remote towns.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Audit finds errors on emissions]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[JUST months before the carbon tax is introduced, an auditor's report has found that more than one in six major polluters has made ''significant errors'' when reporting its greenhouse emissions and energy use to the government.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hawker makes a splash for MS]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[TOMORROW the community of tiny outback town Hawker will get behind one of its own and a worthy cause as locals hit the pool to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society of South Australia and the Northern Territory. 
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buyers beware supermarket tactics]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FRUIT and vegetable prices might be down due to increased supply and a supermarket price war, but shoppers beware: some more expensive items are lurking in the shopping trolley.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US energy plans pinned on gas]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE race to shore up energy certainty in the face of peak oil, vastly differing strategies are on the international table.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Farmers squeezed out of energy boon]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[LANDHOLDERS should be capitalising on seismic changes in how we generate energy, Matthew Wright says, but instead they are being pushed aside.
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Egremont keeps it simple]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE lessons from life and nature are free but the consequences of not learning from them can be costly. 
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thousands evacuated as floodwaters rise]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FLOODING has forced more than 2000 people from their homes in northern NSW and isolated 11,000 people, while Moree braces for its worst floods in 36 years.
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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