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		<title>Chatham House Rule not Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at the Lowy Institute today for a talk on Asia&#8217;s Nuclear Power Future. The Chair announced that the event was being held under the Chatham House Rule. The rule reads: &#8220;When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horatius holding the bridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a follow up to my post on a call for simple language, Don Watson had this piece in The Sydney Morning Herald on a similar issue. Watson rallies against management-speak, which has transformed clear everyday language into &#8220;meaningless sludge.&#8221; He says, &#8220;Telling people requires language whose meaning is plain and unmistakable. Managerial language is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An argument for simple language</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to an interesting piece from Radio Australia&#8217;s Correspondent&#8217;s Notebook programme. Our (that is the Australian) prime minister Kevin Rudd has had an essay rejected from the US journal Foreign Affairs. Apparently the reasoning is that the essay is dense, ponderous and has more than the usual cliché. The Interpreter has a good [...]]]></description>
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