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<description><![CDATA[The latest from Macedon Ranges Weekly]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New curriculum too hard, science teachers claim]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE new national science curriculum is flawed and too difficult for most students, NSW teachers say.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rise in students exempt from test]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE proportion of NSW students exempted from sitting the national literacy and numeracy tests has doubled in three years across many year groups.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Suspension is a 'holiday' for violent students]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A TEACHER who witnessed a fight at Batemans Bay High School that left a 13-year-old boy in an induced coma has criticised authorities for failing to tackle what he said was the school's growing problem of student violence.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Banished sheikh returns with guest role on the big screen]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE end of Ramadan and Skype conspired to bring a deported sheikh - who may or may not be a spy for Iran - back to Sydney.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Barnardos welcomes same-sex adoptions as religious right vows to fight]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/lifematters/barnardos-welcomes-samesex-adoptions-as-religious-right-vows-to-fight-20100910-154yu.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[BARNARDOS AUSTRALIA, which has been at the forefront of child welfare for than 120 years, has embraced the legislation passed in the NSW Parliament allowing adoption by same-sex couples and will proceed with three adoptions in line with it.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A morning feast to celebrate the end of Ramadan's fast]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/lifematters/a-morning-feast-to-celebrate-the-end-of-ramadans-fast-20100910-154yt.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[FOR the past 30 nights Fatima Chahrouk has prepared an evening iftar, or fast-breaking, meal for a rotating combination of her six children, her two grandchildren, her husband, her brother, her sister-in-law, her brother's children and lastly, for herself.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Senate plan to cut corporate watchdog powers]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/national/senate-plan-to-cut-corporate-watchdog-powers-20100910-154ys.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A SENATE inquiry report will call for the corporate watchdog to lose it power over the insolvency industry because the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has responded too slowly to complaints raised by high-profile corporate collapses such as ABC Learning, Opes Prime and Storm Financial.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gillard hands Rudd foreign affairs post]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/national/gillard-hands-rudd-foreign-affairs-post-20100910-154yr.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[KEVIN RUDD will be named foreign affairs minister when Julia Gillard announces her new ministry today, a day after the independent MP, Robert Oakeshott, spurned the offer of a cabinet position.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Safety comes first when kids are let loose in MasterChef kitchen]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/safety-comes-first-when-kids-are-let-loose-in-masterchef-kitchen-20100910-154yq.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[CARAMELISING is in but flambees are out. And no pumpkin carving.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Anger as council shuts Aboriginal library]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/anger-as-council-shuts-aboriginal-library-20100910-154yp.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[AN indigenous elder in rural NSW is taking Moree Plains Shire Council to the Human Rights Commission over the effective closure of the local Aboriginal library and the dispersal of many of its books and resources.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Qantas 'breached' security]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/qantas-breached-security-20100910-154yo.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Qantas breached security protocols during a bomb scare at Sydney Airport two days ago, baggage handlers say.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rehab after epidural tragedy]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/rehab-after-epidural-tragedy-20100910-154yn.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Grace Wang, the Sydney woman horribly injured when the wrong substance was infused into her epidural during childbirth, has begun rehabilitation treatment.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reality check as two fat tradies do their Block]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/domain/reality-check-as-two-fat-tradies-do-their-block-20100910-154ym.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[THE latest Channel Nine real estate renovation reality series, The Block,  will seek four $1 million-plus buyers for its Vaucluse apartments to turn a profit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Submarine plans could be scuttled]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/national/submarine-plans-could-be-scuttled-20100910-154yl.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[THE new defence minister will come under pressure to scrap Australia's most expensive defence project - the plan to build 12 new submarines at a potential cost of $36 billion.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Farmer 'just got on with it']]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/farmer-just-got-on-with-it-20100910-154yk.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[FARMER Chris Eggert agrees with Bob Katter that deregulation was handled badly, but not that life on the land is too harsh.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reviewers take up their forks to fight for a voice amid babble]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/reviewers-take-up-their-forks-to-fight-for-a-voice-amid-babble-20100910-154yj.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Expert critics have been deemed an endangered species but they still have a few critical words to say, writes Damien Murphy.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The fast and the furious: drag king leaves some fuming]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/the-fast-and-the-furious-drag-king-leaves-some-fuming-20100910-154yi.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[As the Sydney Dragway thunders into action this weekend, Rick Feneley investigates the taxpayer-fuelled business - and asks why it can afford to make big donations to the Labor Party.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[He's a natural: baby whisperer promises birth policy shake-up]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/hes-a-natural-baby-whisperer-promises-birth-policy-shakeup-20100910-154yh.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[THEY call him the baby whisperer. In the delivery room, Andrew Bisits is a hushed presence as he facilitates the daily miracle of natural birth.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Big Tobacco hired public relations firm to lobby government]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/national/big-tobacco-hired-public-relations-firm-to-lobby-government-20100910-154yg.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[IF YOUR bulldust detector is twitching over outraged retailers warning that plain packaging for cigarettes ''won't work, so why do it'', you are right on the money.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[20 years of sexual harassment: DJs claims]]></title>
<link>http://www.smh.com.au/national/20-years-of-sexual-harassment-djs-claims-20100910-154ye.html?src=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[THE former David Jones chief executive Mark McInnes engaged in sexual misconduct when he worked at Black and Decker 20 years ago and had to be counselled up to 10 times for his ''inappropriate behaviour, language and approach towards women'', court documents allege.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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