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	<title>Emily Webb</title>
	<link>http://emilybwebb.com</link>
	<description>Journalist, mum, suburbanite.</description>
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		<title>A big week for Australia, for women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a monumental week in Australian politics and history.
We now have our first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. The circumstances of her ascent to the top job were tumultuous -  Labor party MPs made the decision to oust Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and backed Gillard as his successor. Rudd stepped down when it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emilybwebb.com/2010/06/25/a-big-week-for-australia-for-women/</link>
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		<title>Katharine Hepburn biography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just today finished Kate: The Woman who was Katharine Hepburn by William J. Mann. It is book nine in my 2010 100 + Reading Challenge (I know, I am way behind!) A Very revealing biography of a Hollywood actress I have long admired, ever since I saw her in Little Women as Jo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emilybwebb.com/2010/06/12/katharine-hepburn-biography/</link>
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		<title>Failure to take responsibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
I&#8217;ve just finished watching a story segment on Australian current affairs program 60 Minutes. It was about a 15-year-old NSW girl Tegan Lloyd who lost her legs and will spend her life in a wheelchair after a horrific crash that also left the 17-year-old, alcohol-affected female driver dead. There were also two other passengers &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emilybwebb.com/2010/05/30/failure-to-take-responsibility/</link>
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		<title>Party Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just had a party for our 4-year-old. Oh, the pressure of putting on an entertainment-fest for a bunch of cute little kids. I was actually very restless the night before and was anxioulsy awaiting RSVPs so that I knew how many party bags to put together.
Is it just me or do other parents find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emilybwebb.com/2010/05/22/party-season/</link>
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		<title>100+ Reading Challenge Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am way behind with my goal of reading 100+ books this year.
I have been reading but slower than I&#8217;d like and I haven&#8217;t updated here for a while. So&#8230;here&#8217;s what I have been reading.
Worst of Days by Karen Kissane &#8211; This is a fact-driven and includes harrowing accounts of the devastating Victorian Bushfires on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emilybwebb.com/2010/04/23/100-reading-challenge-update/</link>
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		<title>K-Rudd local love</title>
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The Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd was on my home patch today.
He rocked up to a popular shopping precinct and was greeted by a throng of media (I was one of them) and locals (I was also one of them) who were snapping away with their mobile phones and thrusting their kids forward for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emilybwebb.com/2010/03/30/k-rudd-local-love/</link>
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		<title>Why I feel sorry for young people: part 1</title>
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I was watching a music channel countdown of the top 20 hits of the 80s the other night. &#8220;Walk Like an Egyptian&#8221; by The Bangles came on and it reminded me of the times I would get up early to tape music off the radio.
I can clearly remember one morning desperately waiting to tape &#8220;Walk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emilybwebb.com/2010/03/23/why-i-feel-sorry-for-young-people-part-1/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a possessive apostrophe</title>
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I noticed this classic grammar clanger on a promo for ER on television the other week:

I can remember my first weekly grammar test for my journalism course at university. I made this mistake too and my lecturer Sally White,  wrote &#8220;Sally sitting down because Sally feels ill&#8221; and she drew a little picture of her sitting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emilybwebb.com/2010/03/06/thedogwagsitistail/</link>
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		<title>Disney Princess Complex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My daughter is heavily into the Disney Princesses at the moment. Ariel and Snow White are her favourites and she loves to dress up as a princess.
I flip between worry that this interest is going to give her unrealistic expectations about what it means to be a girl and her role in the world, and then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emilybwebb.com/2010/02/24/disney-princess-complex/</link>
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		<title>Successful marriage secrets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of my job as a local newspaper reporter  is to do stories on significant wedding anniversaries - mostly 50th and 60th, even 70th ones.
One of my regular questions to these devoted couples is &#8220;what are your secrets to a successful marriage?&#8221;.
I am always waiting with my breath held for a nugget of advice that is so amazing that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emilybwebb.com/2010/02/14/successful-marriage-secrets/</link>
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