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		<title>Social Inclusion will lead to Global Engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am an internationalist. More correctly I am an Australian Internationalist. I am a passionate advocate of global engagement. I do believe we are interconnected and that &#8216;no man is an island entire of itself.&#8217; But in order to aspire for global engagement, we need social engagement. Loosely, that is people engaging in society in [...]]]></description>
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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>The Fickle Australian Media (and Public)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank God we have a programme like Media Watch to bring some sense to the fickle and tabloid nature of the Australian media. The story I am referring to can be found elsewhere. In a week that has been filled with news of some significance, say the Australian-Indonesian relationship, various natural disasters, and the Greek [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules of thumb for social progress: an observation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prashanth Shanmugan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been following an interesting discussion on the rules of thumb for social progress. Back in March last year, Sam Roggeveen, editor of The Interpreter, cited an observation from Andrew Lee Butters from Time Magazine: &#8220;One of my favorite &#8212; if obvious &#8212; metrics of the health of civil society in any given place is celebratory [...]]]></description>
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