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	<title>Floating Life Apr 06-Nov 07</title>
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		<title>New look archive here</title>
		<link>http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/new-look-archive-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog, as its title suggests, is an archive from my first WordPress blog covering the period April 2006 to November 2007. It continues &#8220;live&#8221; on New Lines from a Floating Life and on Ninglun&#8217;s Specials.
As of today the ten most popular posts and pages here are:
Two Australian poems of World War II 2,155 visitsBill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2007 in review: #2 &#8212; best pics used here in 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. This one came from Creative Spark, an Oz in Singapore.
 

2. Forget where I found this:

3. This one came from The Poet:

4. So did this:

5. And this one from April 2007 of Sirdan and I with Lord Malcolm is sad, as he only had a few weeks to live; but check his smile&#8230;

  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2007 in review: #1 &#8212; Best reads of 2007: fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a tag for that so if you hit it you&#8217;ll find them all duly noted. Just as well, as I would never have remembered them all.
However, cutting out a couple of eccentric entries, I have pared the list down to a First Fifteen.
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Author
Title
Post


Janette Turner Hospital
Orpheus Lost

Welcome to our nightmare



Elmore Leonard
La Brava

Contrasts in my recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Australian poem #17: Bruce Dawe, &#8220;Homecoming&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago I had a student just beginning Year 12 at a Jewish school north of Sydney; Bruce Dawe&#8217;s poetry was our first mission. Over the Christmas holidays (well, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;d call them  ) he went to Queensland, found Bruce Dawe in the phone book and rang him up. &#8220;Hey, I have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M &#8212; another day, another country</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now he is off to San Pedro de Atacama - Chile.

He is also very happy about the election outcome.
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		<title>Australian Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey 2</title>
		<link>http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/australian-adult-literacy-and-life-skills-survey-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Belshaw has posted on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey 2006 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, released just today. I have downloaded the full report, and to be honest have not had time to do more than browse.
Jim&#8217;s post does have a good historical introduction. 
He then notes:
A second thing stands out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surry Hills Library threatens restaurant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing like a good parochial story.
You see, Sydney City Council is building a swish new community centre to include, among other things, a new Surry Hills Library, at the moment temporarily housed on the Northcott Estate. Next door to the new library site is an Indian restaurant.


Police are warning of major delays to peak morning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An old bloke</title>
		<link>http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/an-old-bloke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lovely story of Election Day in Coffs Harbour NSW from Pip Wilson.
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		<title>Reckoning: The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush</title>
		<link>http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/reckoning-the-economic-consequences-of-mr-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some extracts from a&#160; Joseph E. Stiglitz article published in Vanity Fair two days ago.
When we look back someday at the catastrophe that was the Bush administration, we will think of many things: the tragedy of the Iraq war, the shame of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the erosion of civil liberties. The damage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serendipity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought it delightful that ABC had scheduled (unknowingly of course) Choir Of Hard Knocks Opera House Special for the first day of the Rudd government.
Twelve months ago Jonathon Welch brought together a group of Melbourne&#8217;s disadvantaged to form a choir, but had no idea what a sensation the choir would become. Now the 42 [...]]]></description>
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