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		<title>The search for habitable planets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now for something out of this world.  Australian astronomers announced this week that finding planets outside our solar system capable of sustaining life should be made a top funding priority. Since the first discovery of a planet orbiting another star was made in 1995, the number of exoplanets has skyrocketed to more than 750.  While a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&#038;blog=6661900&#038;post=2314&#038;subd=rodbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Promote God&#8217;s ideal for marriage</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, in the wake of U.S. President Barack Obama’s statement of support for same sex marriage, three Australian clergymen spoke to politicians and media in Canberra, claiming that church support for marriage as defined in federal law had a “dehumanizing” influence on same-sex attracted people. Such statements are disingenuous, to say the least.  They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&#038;blog=6661900&#038;post=2312&#038;subd=rodbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gillard Government posts a moral deficit</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was not exactly a surprise, but Tuesday’s federal budget confirmed rumours that the government would cut the aid budget as part of a raft of measures designed to balance the books and deliver a small surplus. The size of the cuts was a surprise: $2.9 billion over the next four years, and a deferral [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&#038;blog=6661900&#038;post=2310&#038;subd=rodbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labor&#8217;s broken promise on aid</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this time every year I comment on the federal budget.  I view the budget as an indication of the moral priorities of the government, and of the people who have elected it and who hold it accountable. This year’s budget will be good news to many families on low incomes, those in urgent need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&#038;blog=6661900&#038;post=2308&#038;subd=rodbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Most Australians support pokies reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The battle for poker machine reform continues among politicians in Canberra as the clubs and hotels do all in their power to make both state and federal governments look the other way while lives are ruined.  Public opinion research shows the vast majority of Australians support poker machine reforms.  The 88 per cent of Australians [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&#038;blog=6661900&#038;post=2305&#038;subd=rodbenson&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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