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<description><![CDATA[The latest from North Queensland Register]]></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['Peak everything': Fischer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FEW public figures in secular Australia can wangle the Pope and agriculture into the same speech, but Tim Fischer is a notable exception.
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[DAFF directionless, say Cobb and Nash]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE federal opposition started the new parliamentary year this week by accusing the Labor government of abandoning agriculture.]]></description>
<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[Asia Iron farm land deal no big deal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ABOUT 3250 hectares of prime Three Springs farmland has been purchased by a subsidiary of mining company Asia Iron Holdings.

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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Anger at independent MPs on woodchips]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE independent federal MPs Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor have backed out of what the Greens say was a ''critical'' part of the carbon tax deal, moving to allow the forestry industry to continue burning native woodchips as renewable energy.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Abattoir cruelty on camera]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A SYDNEY abattoir has been forced to stop slaughtering and faces closure and prosecution after hidden-camera footage of chilling animal cruelty emerged.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Xstrata agrees to merge]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[LONDON - Mining giant Xstrata and commodities dealer Glencore have agreed to a $US90 billion ($A84.22 billion) merger that will create the world's fourth largest natural resources company.
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:00:00 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[Few go for cash offer to move to bush]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ONLY 306 people have signed up for a federal government scheme to ­provide financial incentives for the unemployed to move to rural areas.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NBN returns fire on satellites]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE national broadband network is counting on signing up about 200,000 households to its new satellite internet service across regional Australia at a cost of almost $10,000 a customer.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Greens push for CSG inquiry]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[GREENS Senator Larissa Waters has proposed a broad-ranging Federal Senate inquiry to investigate the impacts of Coal Seam Gas mining on land and water resources on a comprehensive national scale.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Telstra profit soars 23pc on mobiles]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Telstra, Australia's largest phone company, reported first-half earnings of almost $1.5 billion, a touch below analyst expectations, as a jump in mobile subscribers was countered by a fall in sales at its Yellow Pages Sensis business.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gunns keen for NZ investment to fire up mill]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FORESTRY company Gunns is working furiously to translate the cachet of its new cornerstone shareholder, billionaire Richard Chandler, into a green light for its pulp mill.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:00:00 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 21:27:00 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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