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	<title>REAL DIRT</title>
	
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	<description>environmental news, opinion and photographs from James Woodford</description>
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		<title>a fANTaSEA: A tale of the planet’s only swimming ant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 04:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>North Queensland: Tornado One Day, Toad Day the Next</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Lincoln Hall: Everest Conquerer, Author and Iceberg Headstander</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antarctic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Photo and story  by James Woodford I can&#8217;t claim to have known Lincoln Hall, whose death from mesothelioma was announced today, very well. In fact for most of my adult life he has just been someone I have admired from afar through his writing, his adventuring and his several scrapes with mortality. But in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Yella</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bananas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Considering they&#8217;re down to a few dollars a kilogram bananas are surprisingly hard work. I wrote, recently, about how sorely our family&#8217;s patience was being tested as we watched a mammoth bunch of bananas &#8211; literally the size of my five year old daughter &#8211; refuse to ripen on one of the palms we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Fest, Townsville 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Townsville is a place that has really surprised me. Firstly, the weather this winter has been astonishing &#8211; like an endless southern autumn, with day after day in the mid-20s and then night after night buried in doonas. If winter was like this every year and there was no such thing as cyclones in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Banana Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to gardening I am the fantastical dreamer and Prue the magical realist. She promises (and delivers) on turning our 700 square metre block in Townsville into a market garden while I try and convince her we should go for an exotic, impractical tropical orchard. When it comes to our yard I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Only All Politicians Were Scuba Divers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 10:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyclone Yasi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great barrier reef]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1983 Lodestone Reef, east of Magnetic Island, was the scene of a series of gruesome attacks by a five-metre tiger shark. It was also in the path of Cyclone Yasi and so I was curious to finally get there on the weekend and see how the Reef looks four months after one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Footpath Fodder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 03:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[street gardens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our street in Townsville is so wide that the people on the other side look like they inhabit a whole other universe. The road often looks more like a vast asphalt car park than a thoroughfare. When we first moved there Prue and I formally applied to council to plant out part of the nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The J Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 23:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ava]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually like to blog about personal, family things but this one is an exception. In March last year my sister&#8217;s eight-year-old son, Jeremiah Del Tufo, died from brain and spinal cord cancer. It was the most traumatic experience that our family has gone through and for Jeremiah&#8217;s parents, Nicole and Dave, and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Happened to Myrmidon?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[great barrier reef]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before Cyclone Yasi I joined an expedition with scientists out to Myrmidon Reef, 120 kilometres off Townsville. This week I was asked to talk to Radio National&#8217;s Robyn Williams -  Science Show &#8211; Cyclone Yasi &#8211; about the reef. Before the interview I called the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and asked for [...]]]></description>
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