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All quiet on the election front

Maybe the leaders’ debate wasn’t so boring after all. It’s Tuesday and ‘Notegate’ is still raging. Troy Bramston has an op-ed in The Australian arguing that Kevin Rudd didn’t cheat. It’s hard to get too…
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Rudd rewrites playbook on wedge politics

It’s the end of day eight and Kevin Rudd’s surprise debate announcement on same-sex marriage is still making news - maybe he is the suppository of all wisdom. SBS Evening News led with an exclusive from…

No longer must-see-TV

Whatever its political importance, the first leaders’ debate was fairly bleak television. The set was basic and the National Press Club audience may as well not have been there, as far as the viewing audience…

The politics of performance

Brian McNair & Stephen Harrington Audiences like spontaneity and accessibility in their politicians. They tell us this in the research we political communication scholars do, and one doesn’t need a…
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First debate fails our kids

At a time when conservative international organisations including the World Bank and the International Energy Agency are warning that we are heading for 4 degrees or more of warming and that this will…

Motown on the Torrens

Does the horrendous fate of bankrupt Detroit give us a glimpse of Adelaide’s future? The Sunday Mail brought week one of the election campaign to a doom-laden end in South Australia with this ominous question…