Asylum seeker rhetorics
There’s been a bit of a debate over the rhetorical dimension of the government’s messages about asylum seekers. Is Kevin Rudd playing bad cop to Stephen Smith’s good cop? With Senator Chris Evans as straight man, and loud denunciator of [...]
Memories
By Mark Bahnisch on November 8, 2009
John Howard is on the front page of the Sydney Sunday Telegraph proclaiming “I’d stop the boats!”… Meanwhile, all week since the Newspoll likely outlier, the tone of the media coverage and commentary has shifted. Glenn Milne, with his accustomed [...]
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