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How Values influence Policy
This word ‘values’ flys around the politicians and media players; but like many English words it seems to have many meanings. This is not in the slippery or weasel-wordish way, it is just a word that most people seem to feel they understand, and are entitled to use in any old way that they mean […]
Media Pantomime, Pugilistic rhetoric, and the Permanent suspension of disbelief.
I reckon the last couple of weeks would put a crick in the neck of the toughest political pundit. Bernard Keane must be a porcupied mass of acupuncture needles and the Darlinghurst Turkish Baths must be bubbling with anticipated relief. It is tough when there is actually content in the policy arena while dealing with […]


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