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POLITICS AND THE MEDIA

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Politics in Australia has gone down a number of unexpected roads. PICTURE: Daniel McCullough/Unsplash The relentless 24-hour media cycle has promoted sensationalism over substance – three-word-slogans over policy, and trolling over discussion. You hear the politicians trying to deliver their 20 second soundbites during press conferences, such that their speeches become a collection of unrelated, […]