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	<title>Sydney Star Observer &#187; Andrew M Potts</title>
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		<title>Catholic priest supports gay parents</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/15/catholic-priest-supports-gay-parents/22742</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/15/catholic-priest-supports-gay-parents/22742#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archbishop John Bathersby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cameron Dick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Father Stan Griffith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex couples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surrogacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Queensland Catholic priest has made headlines by publicly contradicting his Archbishop after that state voted to legalise altruistic surrogacy for same-sex couples and singles this month.
Brisbane Archbishop John Bathersby lobbied Queensland’s Attorney-General Cameron Dick and wrote to state Parliament against the bill, which he claimed would harm the “institution of our family which is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>We were wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/10/we-were-wrong/22643</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/10/we-were-wrong/22643#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Hanson-Young]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Greens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says a deal was struck to to force a vote on her same-sex marriage bill, but that it was between Labor and the Coalition and not her party.
The Marriage Equality (Amendment) bill was voted down after only 30 minutes of debate and there was widespread speculation a deal had been done [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>HIV+ migrant inquiry</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/09/hiv-migrant-inquiry/22560</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/09/hiv-migrant-inquiry/22560#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS Legal Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Minister Chris Evans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAPWA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN High Commission for Regugees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the nation’s peak AIDS bodies have used an inquiry into migration by disabled people to lobby for reform of rules affecting immigrants with HIV.
In 2008, Immigration Minister Chris Evans asked the Joint Standing Committee on Migration to look at health requirements in the Migration Act following concerns they only considered estimated costs to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Push for religious civil unions in UK</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/06/push-for-religious-civil-unions-in-uk/22481</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/06/push-for-religious-civil-unions-in-uk/22481#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil partnership laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A coalition of high-ranking Christians and politicians is pushing for the UK’s civil partnership laws to be amended to enable religious denominations to marry same-sex couples and to use religious terminology in civil union ceremonies.
Under current laws, civil union ceremonies are banned from being held in places of worship, as is the use of religious [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Campaign to stop Iran executions</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/04/campaign-to-stop-iran-executions/22477</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/04/campaign-to-stop-iran-executions/22477#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[346 No Execution Campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amnesty International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iranian Homosexual Human Rights Council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An international campaign has been launched to end the death penalty in Iran.
Iran has carried out thousands of executions since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, with men who have sex with men one of the largest groups targeted.
Other victim groups include women who are often executed for adultery. In the past, people have been given death [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Greens marriage sell-out</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/03/greens-marriage-sell-out/22457</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/03/greens-marriage-sell-out/22457#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Ferguson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corey Irlams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family First]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Brandis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[limited debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louise Pratt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage Equality Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Sherry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Hanson-Young]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Bob Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Steve Fielding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Greens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Questions have been raised about the Greens’ commitment to the Marriage Equality Bill after it emerged the party brokered a deal with the major parties that limited debate and forced the bill to a quick vote.
The bill was defeated in the Senate after only 30 minutes of debate last Thursday. Originally, debate was to begin [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>52</slash:comments>
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		<title>Registries by the year&#8217;s end</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/03/registries-by-the-years-end/22353</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/03/registries-by-the-years-end/22353#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deaths and Marriages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Registry of Births]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Greens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages will be registering same-sex and heterosexual de facto couples before year’s end if the Government has its way.
“It is anticipated that the register will be set up later in the year after this consultative process is finalised,” a spokeswoman for NSW Attorney General John Hatzistergos told Sydney [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>No progress on federal anti-discrimination</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/03/no-progress-on-federal-anti-discrimination/22419</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/03/no-progress-on-federal-anti-discrimination/22419#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Human Rights Commission Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanya Plibersek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A gay former ALP supporter is considering moving to Canada over the Government’s failure to end discrimination against gay and lesbian Australians under federal law.
In 2008, the Government amended around 85 pieces of legislation to treat same-sex couples equally with heterosexual de factos.
However, no federal legislation covers discrimination based on sexuality, and the Australian Human [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Move on GLBT rights: EU</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/02/move-on-glbt-rights-eu/22292</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/03/02/move-on-glbt-rights-eu/22292#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[croatia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GLBT discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macedonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The European Union has reaffirmed that countries wanting to join must provide genuine protections for their GLBT citizens.
In accepting reports on membership bids by Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey, the European Parliament reminded all three that progress on GLBT issues was a non-negotiable condition of entry.
Croatia was singled out for banning a gay pride event in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Marriage Bill debate begins today</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/25/marriage-bill-debate-begins-today/22239</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/25/marriage-bill-debate-begins-today/22239#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Hanson-Young]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Greens and Parents and Friends of Lesbians And Gays (PFLAG) have spoken out prior to debate in the Senate on the Marriage Equality (Amendment) Bill.
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said she hoped the major parties would allow a conscience vote following the debate, as it would show the true extent of support for marriage equality in [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/25/marriage-bill-debate-begins-today/22239/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Marriage back on the agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/23/marriage-back-on-the-agenda/22055</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/23/marriage-back-on-the-agenda/22055#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greens Marriage Equality Amendment Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louise Pratt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Hanson-Young]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Parliament will debate the Greens Marriage Equality Amendment Bill this week, three months after a Senate committee recommended against it.
Opinions in the committee fell along party lines, with Labor and Liberal senators opposing the bill, and the panel’s only Green, the bill’s sponsor Sarah Hanson-Young, supporting it.
The only Labor senator to have expressed public [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Opposition to Uganda death bill grows</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/23/opposition-to-uganda-death-bill-grows/22043</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/23/opposition-to-uganda-death-bill-grows/22043#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Prayer Breakfast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The campaign against Uganda’s death penalty bill for homosexuality has received the backing of leading figures both inside and outside Africa.
Early this month, US President Barack Obama criticised the bill at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
“We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it’s unconscionable to target gays and lesbians [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gay &#8217;super uncles&#8217; to the rescue</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/23/gay-super-uncles-to-the-rescue/21989</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/23/gay-super-uncles-to-the-rescue/21989#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doug Vanderlaan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fa’afafine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Vasey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samoa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian researchers believe they have found evidence that homosexuality may be an example of ‘kin selection’ whereby individuals within a species pass on genes by helping their relatives survive, rather than reproducing themselves.
The most dramatic examples of kin selection are the sterile worker ants that protect the reproductive queen and drones in an ant colony.
Evolutionary [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Queensland moves on surrogacy</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/17/queensland-moves-on-surrogacy/21709</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/17/queensland-moves-on-surrogacy/21709#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Queensland has voted to legalise altruistic surrogacy for all couples and single people, and to allow non-biological parents to be recognised on birth certificates.
In a vote of 48 in favour to 40 against, MPs voted to move a Government bill forward and rejected an alternative bill put forward by deputy Opposition leader Lawrence Springborg which [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Axe hangs over right-wing Liberals</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/17/axe-hangs-over-right-wing-liberals/21716</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/17/axe-hangs-over-right-wing-liberals/21716#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Clarke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Liberal Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW Liberals may lose two of their most outspoken gay and lesbian rights critics following a push by the party’s ‘conservative-progressive’ faction to stop David Clarke MLC from recontesting the the next state election.
Civil Contractors Federation CEO David Elliot has nominated for preselection for Clarke’s Legislative Council spot with the backing of the conservative-progressive [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hickey to challenge Plibersek</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/17/hickey-to-challenge-plibersek/21612</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/17/hickey-to-challenge-plibersek/21612#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanya Plibersek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Greens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Hickey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Greens are hoping to mobilise voter dissatisfaction over the Government’s policy on same-sex marriage at the next federal election in their campaign for the seat of Sydney.
Local gay man and teacher Tony Hickey will stand against current Rudd frontbencher Tanya Plibersek for the seat at the next federal election.
“Most people in Sydney, if they’re [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Vancouver gets gay village</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/sport/2010/02/16/vancouver-gets-gay-village/21676</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/sport/2010/02/16/vancouver-gets-gay-village/21676#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympic Games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time at an Olympic Games, the Olympic villages for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics will contain not just one, but two gay and lesbian pavilions.
The Vancouver games will split events between the state capital of British Columbia and the nearby alpine resort town of Whistler ­— hence the need for two villages.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Outdoor Rec Party goes pro-gay</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/10/outdoor-rec-party-goes-pro-gay/21300</link>
		<comments>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/10/outdoor-rec-party-goes-pro-gay/21300#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW Outdoor Recreation Party is to change its tune on gay and lesbian issues after merging with the pro-same-sex marriage Liberal Democratic Party.
The parties merged to ensure representation on the ballots at the next federal and state election. The merged entity will run as LDP federally and as Outdoor Recreation in NSW.
During parliamentary debate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea-bagging with John Waters</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/entertainment/2010/02/09/tea-bagging-with-john-waters/21246</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew M Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahead of performances in Melbourne and Sydney, cult cinema director John Waters talked to Sydney Star Observer about America under President Barack Obama, tea-bagging, liberal censorship and witnessing some of the great trials of the 20th century.
Despite some US gay and lesbian activists being unhappy with the pace of reform under the Obama administration, Waters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy to open transgender-only jail</title>
		<link>http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/02/09/italy-to-open-transgender-only-jail/21305</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Italy is to open the world’s first prison facility to cater solely for transgendered people.
The 30-bed facility, in the town of Pozzale, near Florence in Tuscany, was formerly a women’s prison, but by the end of last year its population had dwindled to just two inmates despite employing a staff of 22 people.
Starting later this [...]]]></description>
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