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	<description>MP for Christchurch Central, Opposition Spokesman on Broadcasting and Water</description>
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		<title>Cranford Basin rezoning should proceed says MP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ECAN and the city council should accept Cranford Basin needs to be converted from rural to urban land and abandon fresh appeals against this happening, believes Christchurch Central MP Brendon Burns. He says the current 'donut' of rural land on either side of upper Cranford St is a nonsense.]]></description>
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		<title>Residents by-pass breach gets MP and board member&#8217;s support</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendon Burns</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[East Ellington Drive]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shirely Papanui community board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shirley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Albans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Residents of the East Ellington Drive sub-division off Innes Road have suffered a serious breach of natural justice, says the local MP and a community board member.]]></description>
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		<title>Government gets its dividend after TVNZ cuts staff and posts a loss</title>
		<link>http://www.brendonburns.co.nz/?p=347</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendon Burns</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TVNZ's latest financial results are constructed around ensuring the Government gets a dividend at any cost, says Labour's broadcasting spokesman Brendon Burns.
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		<title>Taxpayers fund galling Government pamphlet on water</title>
		<link>http://www.brendonburns.co.nz/?p=343</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendon Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National/ACT government’s expensive taxpayer-funded pamphlet shows it under-estimated how angry and concerned Cantabrians are about losing control of their water allocation, says Labour’s water spokesman Brendon Burns.]]></description>
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		<title>Public broadcasting options include shotgun marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.brendonburns.co.nz/?p=340</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendon Burns</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[broadcasting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Government options paper on public service broadcasting is considering major and worrying changes, including a shotgun marriage between Radio New Zealand and TVNZ’s non-commercial channels, says Labour’s broadcasting spokesman Brendon Burns. ]]></description>
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		<title>Right to safe water should be universal</title>
		<link>http://www.brendonburns.co.nz/?p=333</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendon Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Zealanders deserve to know why their Government did not support a UN resolution which affirms the rights of an estimated billion people whose supplies currently are not safe to drink, says Labour water spokesperson Brendon Burns.]]></description>
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		<title>Minister should heed Radio New Zealand petition</title>
		<link>http://www.brendonburns.co.nz/?p=331</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendon Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labour broadcasting spokesperson Brendon Burns has tabled a petition in Parliament this week recording the support of more than 2500 people for Radio New Zealand as the Government directs it to "reconfigure" services.]]></description>
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		<title>Hurunui moratorium should extend to other Canterbury waterways</title>
		<link>http://www.brendonburns.co.nz/?p=330</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendon Burns</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canterbury]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water quality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imposing a moratorium on the Hurunui River until the next election is an inevitable response to growing public concerns about decreasing water quality in Canterbury, says Labour’s water spokesman Brendon Burns.]]></description>
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		<title>Fear that Synlait’s expansion will be at expense of environment</title>
		<link>http://www.brendonburns.co.nz/?p=329</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendon Burns</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canterbury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[waterways]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Labour Water spokesperson Brendon Burns says there is now a real worry that Canterbury corporate dairy farmer Synlait will significantly expand production before effective new environmental controls are put in place to protect endangered water quality in the region.]]></description>
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		<title>Police on receiving end of worrying trend</title>
		<link>http://www.brendonburns.co.nz/?p=328</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendon Burns</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[firearms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phillipstown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[shooting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[13 July 2010 

Christchurch Central MP Brendon Burns has visited the scene of today’s double shooting of police officers and the killing of a police dog in the inner Christchurch suburb of Phillipstown.]]></description>
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