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Going local – social networking for politicians

While there’s a million and one articles on the internet about how Obama built his success on social networks. There are fewer articles about how local candidates’ campaigns used social networking to promote their candidacy. I’ve previously written about one instance of a local campaign – the governor race in Virginia – using text message [...]

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More double dissolution speculation

With the spectacular self-immolation of the Liberal Party this week (see the spill Twitter chatter here), speculation about a double dissolution on climate change is mounting.
Last night, several political insiders expressed their belief that it was in Labor’s interests to go to a double dissolution when (if?) the Liberals delay the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme [...]

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LEAN Conference Booklet

The Labor Environment Action Network had its national launch at the ALP National Conference Fringe. As part of this launch, the LEAN distributed conference booklets to hundreds of ALP conference delegates and members.
The brief for this project was to show that LEAN was a professional, environmentally-focused organisation with a strong, authoritative policy agenda.
As copywriting was [...]

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Labor must assert its economic credentials

The recent spate of reporting of polls demonstrates that Labor must continue to assert its strong nation building narrative and economic credentials.
Labor and Kevin Rudd correctly judged the public’s mood by decrying the excesses of extreme capitalism and neoliberalism, and forging a renewed social-democratic path.
Despite the baying of the press gallery and conservative columnists and [...]

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Doug Cameron on Parliamentary Lobbying

An insightful video of Senator Doug Cameron on lobbying Parliament in Australia.
Doug gave this talk at a forum organised by the NTEU Victorian Division at the end of February. He kindly agreed to talk to a camera afterwards.
Parliamentary Lobbying – Lessons from the other side – with Senator Doug Cameron from NTEU Victoria on Vimeo.

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