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		<title>The Gifthorse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t know The Gifthorse for much of their lifespan, but there isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t wish they were still around. LAST NIGHT I DREAMT OF SOMETHING MORE / AND IT OPENED UP MY TIRED EYES. I first heard about the band through Hoist Rocky Online &#8211; a now-defunct internet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sophiebenjamin.com/2012/01/the-gifthorse/</link>
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		<title>Poison City Weekender</title>
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		<link>http://sophiebenjamin.com/2011/11/poison-city-weekender/</link>
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		<title>Finabah &#8211; where are they now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has a past life they aren't proud of. In mine, I worked as a music publicist.

Before that though, I worked as a pizza waitress at a death trap dive of a cafe in the hilly Brisbane suburb of Paddington. The boss was a sleaze, my co-workers were addicts of varying persuasion and I kept fucking up people's orders.]]></description>
		<link>http://sophiebenjamin.com/2011/10/finabah-where-are-they-now/</link>
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		<title>ABC Sunshine Coast: May 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've spent the last month or so at ABC Sunshine Coast, filling in as a producer for their Breakfast and Mornings programs. Here is some audio of the things I've been doing.]]></description>
		<link>http://sophiebenjamin.com/2011/05/abc-sunshine-coast/</link>
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		<title>Toowoomba&#8217;s derby girls play first bout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roller derby explained by sophiebenjamin &#160; After almost two years of set-backs and hurdles, Toowoomba&#8217;s first Roller Derby team will play their first bout in Brisbane this Saturday. &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t be more excited,&#8221; skater Ellen Grinham enthuses. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had a lot of hurdles to get here, even in the last week we&#8217;ve had one skater [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sophiebenjamin.com/2011/04/toowoombas-derby-girls-play-first-bout/</link>
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		<title>Triple J Magazine &#8211; Uni Towns feature (Toowoomba)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Published in the March 2011 issue of Triple J Magazine.]]></description>
		<link>http://sophiebenjamin.com/2011/04/triple-j-magazine-uni-towns-feature-toowoomba/</link>
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		<title>The NBN &#8211; why we need it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember how excited I was when I bought my first electric guitar. I&#8217;d saved up all the money I&#8217;d made working in my Dad&#8217;s hardware store on school holidays and purchased a blue Les Paul knock-off. My Dad was considerably less excited. &#8220;You&#8217;ve already got a guitar,&#8221; he grumbled, pointing to my old acoustic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sophiebenjamin.com/2011/04/the-nbn-why-we-need-it/</link>
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		<title>Toowoomba show at night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taken at the Toowoomba Show for Toowoomba Finda. See the Finda gallery or check out my Flickr set.]]></description>
		<link>http://sophiebenjamin.com/2011/04/toowoomba-show-at-night/</link>
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		<title>Rage against the bullies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IT&#8217;S this week&#8217;s viral video sensation. An overweight school boy is taunted and punched by younger, smaller bullies before losing his temper and bodyslamming his tormentor. Both boys received suspensions and mobile phone footage of the fight at Sydney&#8217;s Chifley College in Sydney  was online by Monday afternoon It soon went viral, attracting thousands of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sophiebenjamin.com/2011/03/rage-against-the-bullies/</link>
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		<title>Survivors left exhausted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barry Bull is deflated and exhausted.
"I just want to get out of here," he said sadly, standing in the shaky carport of his family home in Postmans Ridge.]]></description>
		<link>http://sophiebenjamin.com/2011/02/survivors-left-exhausted/</link>
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