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		<title>G8 sets 5-year Afghan security target</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Afghan government forces must make concrete progress towards assuming more responsibility for the security of their country within five years, the G8 nations announced. A summit statement from the leaders of the world&#8217;s major industrialised nations called on Kabul to &#8220;expand the capacity of the Afghan National Security Forces to assume increasing responsibility for security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: The &#8216;Gen Y War&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re drawn to the sound of the approaching helicopters, a well rehearsed choreography of surgeons, nurses, medics, attired in an unlikely mix of sports gear, surgical gloves, Hawaiian shirts, and combat boots. We all instinctively hunch against the sudden down blast of landing medivac Blackhawks. The wounded and the body bags are stretchered off. Today&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/398</link>
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		<title>Diggers die in Afghan chopper crash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three Australian Commandos and a US soldier have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. The diggers were among 10 Australians from the Special Operations Task Group on the coalition forces helicopter when it went down in rugged terrain in Northern Kandahar. The chief of the Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/392</link>
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		<title>Wikileaks founder breaks cover but &#8216;on permanent alert&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The US state department is desperate to ask the Australian hacker what he knows of 260,000 classified messages about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The elusive founder of WikiLeaks, who is at the centre of a potential US national security sensation, has surfaced from almost a month in hiding to tell he does not fear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/368</link>
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		<title>Senate inquiry into online privacy debacles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Senate inquiry into the adequacy of privacy laws will soon begin, sparked by recent online privacy controversies and the government&#8217;s plans to snoop on web users&#8217; internet communications. The inquiry, pushed through by the Greens, will examine privacy protections and data collection on social networking sites and the data collection activities of private companies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/364</link>
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		<title>Androids invade smartphone market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has released figures that reveal its Android operating system is stealing precious ground from arch-rivals Apple and Microsoft in the battle for smartphone dominance, with 160,000 new Android handsets being activated every day around the world. The latest figures &#8211; equivalent to 4.8m new phones per month &#8211; came as Samsung fired the latest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/360</link>
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		<title>Obama internet &#8216;kill switch&#8217; bill approved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The US senators pushing a controversial new bill that some fear would give President Barack Obama the powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet have rejected claims it would give Obama a net &#8220;kill switch&#8221;. The bill, titled Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, has been unanimously approved by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/354</link>
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		<title>Greek Islands for Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greece is making it easier for the rich and famous to fulfil their dreams by preparing to sell, or offering long-term leases on, some of its 6000 sun-kissed islands in a desperate attempt to repay its mountainous debts. The hope is that the sale or long-term lease of some islands will attract international investment that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/315</link>
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		<title>WorkCover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hon. MATTHEW MASON-COX: Mr Watson, I refer to your comment that WorkCover is such a good place to work and that is why so many people want to work there. How does that statement stack up in light of the reports in the press about bullying and harassment in WorkCover? Indeed, your own survey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/311</link>
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		<title>Fair Work Australia – serious questions asked about viability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To have a genuinely national system there will at some point need to be a rationalisation of the ten-plus State and Federal agencies and tribunals.  Industry, however, would have serious concerns with a new agency that diminished the functions and independence of key institutions within the WorkChoices workplace relations system such as the Australian Industrial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fairworkaustralia.com.au/archives/278</link>
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