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August 7, 2010
The election campaign that is currently taking place in Australia is widely regarded as boring, dull and uninteresting. It's all spin, personality and talking points with the politics being treated as entertainment by the media.
You can forget about policy issues: the politicians are in flight, the media caught up in election frenzy, has no interest in policy whilst the conservative (anti-Labor) media just bash the Greens as hard left (green on the outside and red on the inside).
Bill Leak
This cartoon by Bill Leak in The Australian is one of the better visual comments on the emotions of the participants in the campaign; better because it goes behind the bland, glossy, showbiz appearances of politicians kissing babies, doing shopping mall walks and staged media interviews to state the talking point of the day in a measured tone.
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