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		<title>Recent posts on BN Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 02:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There have been some recent posts on BetterNature Books, see below. Don&#8217;t forget to &#8216;Follow&#8217; on that site if you wish to continue receiving notifications. This site will be closed within a few weeks. Partisan Media, Incoherent Labor and the Rabble Clings to Power Leave a reply [Published 23 May at Independent Australia.] Take a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A People&#8217;s Embassy (blog)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 02:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Next week, as Parliament resumes, I will mount a protest against corruption of the Parliament, namely a People’s Embassy &#8211; to our Parliament. See the explanation on the dedicated page A People&#8217;s Embassy. Corruption of our democratic system is flagrant, but hardly commented upon. Politicians accept money from the rich and do favours for the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What might we be?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Professional, disciplined, pragmatism over purity: so enthuse the commentators about another highly-managed national Labor conference. Don’t end the crimes against humanity being committed on Manus and Nauru, don’t bother with a human rights charter for Australia, address the housing bubble through the housing supply rather than the money supply, propose some new (but not too [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Little Green eBook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2018 03:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whether we like it or not, ‘the economy‘ is the main game in today’s world. No matter the good causes we work for, the present economy will very likely be subverting and trampling them]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gr**th and G*P: Don’t Mention the G-Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 03:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Economies and economics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If we relegate money to its proper place of facilitating what we do, and focus instead on what we do, then the net price of everything, the GDP, becomes irrelevant, as does its possible increase or decrease.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Score voting: a simpler, less distorting measure of voters’ will</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoff Davies]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 02:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Political commentary]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Score voting avoids the vagaries and gaming that are intrinsic to preference ranking systems. It is simpler and more reliably reflects the will of voters. You have probably used it if you have completed a survey. We should use it in political elections.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Myth of the Robust Deregulated Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is not a little gob-smacking that neoliberal apologists can (still) look at this history and extract a story of an economy saved by deregulation.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Immigration debate: the menagerie in the living room</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2018 07:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The feral goat standing on the dining room table is baa-ing aggressively at the boat people being featured on a TV screen, complaining about Asians taking our jobs.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lest We Also Forget</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 02:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lest we also forget the 1200 brave women from twelve nations, including combatant nations, who gathered at The Hague in April 1915 to consider how to stop the slaughter already well under way, though still to get much worse. Post-war they formed the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Their resolutions fed into the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>BetterNature is moving!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Better Nature is moving! To BetterNatureBooks.net.au . (It will still be a Blog site too.) It&#8217;s time for a stand-alone website that enables more features. (It&#8217;s still a WordPress-based site, but not via the freebie wordpress.com.) So please visit the new site. Remember to change your bookmark to BetterNatureBooks.net.au . And please remember to &#8216;Follow&#8217; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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