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		<title>Is the Australian suburb under threat?</title>
		<link>http://rosieniven.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/is-the-australian-suburb-under-threat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Australia&#8217;s most famous suburban street
Originally uploaded by littlesaint_uk.
Well it could be according to a Brisbane-based planning academic.
Professor Tony Hall of Queensland Griffith University has noted that backyards are shrinking across Australia. In an interview published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Hall claims this reflects a shift away from the outdoor-loving lifestyle that Australians have long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosieniven.wordpress.com&blog=872504&post=260&subd=rosieniven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty and the backpacking beast</title>
		<link>http://rosieniven.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/beauty-and-the-backpacking-beast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Thailand, then Vietnam and now Laos have become a must-do destination for backpackers in the far east. While Thailand has its islands and Vietnam spectacular bays, Laos&#8217; main asset is its dramatic landscape &#8211; and good, cheap beer!
Backpackers&#8217; favoured combination of extreme sports and excessive drinking come together in the resort of Vang Vieng. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosieniven.wordpress.com&blog=872504&post=252&subd=rosieniven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The High Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Originally uploaded by littlesaint_uk.
If you are lucky enough to be going to New York this summer, make sure you leave time to check out its newest park &#8211; the High Line.
The High Line, which opens later this Spring, has supporters ranging from U.S secretary of state Hillary Clinton to actor Edward Norton. The difference between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosieniven.wordpress.com&blog=872504&post=226&subd=rosieniven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Face off on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://rosieniven.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/face-off-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until today, I was a member of a Facebook group called &#8220;the BNP are nasty racists and shouldn&#8217;t be here&#8221; (For non-British readers, the BNP is the UK&#8217;s ultra-right wing party). The group was set up a couple of years back to protest against a BNP presence on Facebook and it eventually gained hundreds of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosieniven.wordpress.com&blog=872504&post=218&subd=rosieniven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How architects can&#8217;t solve every problem</title>
		<link>http://rosieniven.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/how-architects-cant-solve-every-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month I attended a symposium at  Melbourne University about public buildings from the modern era (1945 onwards) and how they could be preserved. The University&#8217;s school of planning and architecture managed to assemble speakersfrom around the world to share their views on why it is important to conserve our modern heritage.
One thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosieniven.wordpress.com&blog=872504&post=201&subd=rosieniven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Lonely Planet</title>
		<link>http://rosieniven.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/inside-lonely-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lonely Planet guides have been a faithful companion to scores of backpackers over the years. Even in the digital age, a guide by Lonely Planet or one of their rivals, features prominently on most travelers packing list.



More than three decades on from the first edition of South East Asia on a Shoestring and the basic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosieniven.wordpress.com&blog=872504&post=186&subd=rosieniven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supersizing news</title>
		<link>http://rosieniven.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/supersizing-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Future of Journalism event I attended in November, one speaker talked about how Fairfax, owner of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, has dumbed down its web coverage. The speaker in question memorably contrasted how Fairfax bosses were selling a slap up meal in print and fast food on the web.
Unfortunately, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosieniven.wordpress.com&blog=872504&post=183&subd=rosieniven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obamamania</title>
		<link>http://rosieniven.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/obamamania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year we spent several weeks touring America and Obamamania was evidence almost everywhere we went. I have written about this already on my travel blog and for the regeneration magazine New Start.
Posted in Pictures Tagged: Obama, politics, USA      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosieniven.wordpress.com&blog=872504&post=169&subd=rosieniven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No jumpers for goalposts here</title>
		<link>http://rosieniven.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/world-cup-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no shortages of free things to do in Melbourne, which is good news if you are out of work! Last week was a perfect example – this year’s Homeless World Cup kicked off last Monday and all games were held smack bang in the heart of the central business district, with free entry to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosieniven.wordpress.com&blog=872504&post=97&subd=rosieniven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black, white and dead all over</title>
		<link>http://rosieniven.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/decade-of-hell-for-staff-journalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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The supposed decline of the print newspaper industry has commanded many column inches in the UK and around the world. Just after arriving in Melbourne, I attended journalism union Media Alliance&#8217;s conference on the future of journalism and wrote a story on it for Press Gazette.
A report launched alongside the event confirmed that the trends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rosieniven.wordpress.com&blog=872504&post=95&subd=rosieniven&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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