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	<description>An Antipodean Perspective on Politics, Ideas and Ponderings on the Human Condition</description>
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		<title>Upcoming Travel Schedule</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An up-to-date travel schedule is available on Dopplr. 2012 17 Jan &#8211; 01 Feb: The Hague, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 02 Feb &#8211; 05 Feb: London, UK 05 Feb &#8211; 08 Feb: The Hague &#38; Amsterdam, The Netherlands 15 May &#8211; 15 June: USA and Canada TBC 2011 3 April &#8211; 5 April: San Francisco, USA 6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Normal Blogging Resumes&#8230;Europe Bound (again)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have realised that it has been some months since I have updated this blogsite. Have been somewhat busy the latter part of 2011. As I sit at Sydney Airport, ready to board my Qantas flight to London, it is only fitting that I should resume blogging. For it was in Europe where this site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commitment and Responsibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commitment and Responsibility Awards Presentation Evening, Tattersalls Club, Sydney 15 December 2011 Transcript]]></description>
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		<title>50 Years of the U.S. Peace Corps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[50 Years of the U.S. Peace Corps Young Members&#8217; Drinks, Tattersalls Club, Sydney 20 October 2011]]></description>
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		<title>Recte et Fortiter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was submitted for the jubilee publication of the 75th anniversary of Homebush Boys High School: Two events will be celebrated this year. Through the course of history those two events have became intertwined in the rich tapestry of our nation’s history. A great scholastic institution, Homebush Boys’ High School, will celebrate 75 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gillard&#8217;s last military funeral</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gillard&#8217;s last military funeral The Interpreter, 25 August 2011 James Brown raises some valid points in his recent opinion piece. He argues that the prime minister and opposition leader should make the upcoming funeral of Private Matthew Lambert their last, and that it is time to depoliticise military funerals. Military funerals should never be politicised. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Military Funerals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Defence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Brown raises some valid points in his recent opinion piece. He argues that the prime minister and opposition leader should make the upcoming funeral of Private Matthew Lambert their last, and that it is time to depoliticise military funerals. Military funerals should never be politicised. But I disagree that this should be the last funeral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation with the World Bank President</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I was at the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre&#8217;s annual dinner with Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank Group. The Hilton Hotel was filled with the who&#8217;s who of Australia&#8217;s diplomatic, business, political, and academic worlds. A former prime minister, a current prime minister (Tonga&#8217;s), former premiers, current and former ministers, the consular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fit and Proper Persons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other week The Now Show on BBC Radio 4 had a very good &#8216;editorial&#8217; by John Finnemore on the phone hacking scandal in the UK. Titled preaching to the choir, I think encapsulates the varies issues and grievances surrounding the phone hacking, the closure of The News of the World, and News Corporation&#8217;s takeover bid for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In war, the law is not silent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Geneva Conventions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Humanitarian Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I was at the advance screening of Robert Redford&#8217;s movie The Conspirator. It was released while I was in the United States and I had intended on seeing it. Though I knew of the story of the assassination of the 16th U.S. President, I was not aware of the initial conspiracy to kidnap him [...]]]></description>
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