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	<title>Prashanth Shanmugan &#187; Election 2010</title>
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		<title>Belgium: Unity is Strength</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, 250 days after the elections last June, Belgium broke the modern world record for the longest period without a government. The country may not be a flashpoint for all out ethnic conflict and rarely rates a mention in the world&#8217;s media. It is prosperous and well-run bureaucratically. The caretaker government of  acting prime minister Yves Leterme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch Government Finally Forms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, four months since the polls closed, the Netherlands finally has a new government. It will be a minority one, the first in modern Dutch history, with a Liberal prime minister, the first in 92 years. The VVD and CDA will make up the cabinet. The coalition can count on the support of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweden Swings Slightly to the Right</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/sweden-swings-slightly-to-the-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year I met Urban Ahlin, foreign affairs spokesman for Sweden&#8217;s main opposition party, the Social Democrats. He jokingly told me that &#8220;the only way to win elections in Sweden is to raise taxes!&#8221; This was a jibe at Sweden&#8217;s conservatives, whose only role it seems in politics is to advocate lower taxers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Election We Had To Have</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/the-election-we-had-to-have/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics & Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is said that &#8216;where there is no vision, the people perish&#8217;. I would argue that where there is no passion, the politicians perish. There has been much discussion about the lack of any grand vision in the current Australian Federal Election campaign. It is so uninspiring, unmotivating and uninteresting that the only reason people will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch Troops Leave Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/dutch-troops-leave-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Netherlands began withdrawing its 1950 troops from Afghanistan. The Dutch contribution to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was praised for their effectiveness and for pioneering &#8220;techniques which have since been held up as a model for other foreign forces in Afghanistan.&#8221; The four year mission cost the lives of 24 Dutch defence personnel, 140 were wounded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An insignificant election?</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/an-insignificant-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Engagement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is perhaps a testament of our time, or a testament to the nation&#8217;s appetite (or lack thereof) for a reality cooking show than the reality of taking part in Australia&#8217;s social, economic and political future. As mentioned before, the Leaders&#8217; Debate was moved so that it did not clash with the finale of MasterChef. Has this ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Kathy Lette?</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/why-kathy-lette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been written about Australia&#8217;s new prime minister, Julia Gillard, and the manner in which she came to Office. And that manner is constitutionally valid. Though many would have preferred to have elected our first female prime minister, but we do not elect our prime ministers. They just wanted some kind of say. Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The need for a true liberal party in Australia</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/the-need-for-a-true-liberal-party-in-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://shanmugan.com/the-need-for-a-true-liberal-party-in-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday the Dutch will go to the polls to elect a new national government. Like their cheeses, the Dutch have a variety of parties to choose from. They even have the choice between two liberal ones. The centre-right Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD) and the centre-left Politieke Partij Democraten 66 (D66). But this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dutch Political Policy Primer</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/a-dutch-political-policy-primer/</link>
		<comments>http://shanmugan.com/a-dutch-political-policy-primer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 06:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In about a fortnight, on 9th June, the Dutch will go to the polls to elect a new national government. The coalition government collapsed in February over the vexed issue of extending the Dutch troop deployment to the NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan. After marathon talks, lasting sixteen hours, The PvdA (Dutch Labour Party) quit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8217;5 days that shock the British political system&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://shanmugan.com/5-days-that-shock-the-british-political-system/</link>
		<comments>http://shanmugan.com/5-days-that-shock-the-british-political-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 14:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election 2010]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those are not my words. Professor Peter Hennessy from Queen Mary, University of London has called the last few days of uncertainty &#8220;five days that shock the British political system.&#8221; Britain had a hung parliament. Lord Norton warned that: &#8220;A hung parliament is not a &#8216;people&#8217;s parliament&#8217;, it is the opposite: it is a politician&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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