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Clickbait and gotcha moments: how political conflict became a commodity

Clickbait and gotcha moments: how political conflict became a commodity

Author: Katharine Murphy / Source: the Guardian

Conflict is not a new commodity in news. It’s always been critical. One of my early journalistic mentors told me it wasn’t really a news story unless there was conflict, and preferably the conflict needed to appear by the third paragraph.

But media disruption has intensified the conflict cycle, compressing it into smaller, louder, intraday bursts,…

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Book review: Gillard's My Story, a defence of her prime ministership

Book review: Gillard’s My Story, a defence of her prime ministership

Julia Gillard’s autobiography, My Story, presents a comprehensive defence of her prime ministership. Gillard dives straight into the heart of her story, beginning on the day she was sworn in as prime minister. The book is laid out via a series of themes. So rather than having to wade through childhood and adolescent experiences, the reader is presented with the highlights of Gillard’s political…

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Greg Combet is slaying it.

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Gillard offered Greg Combet the prime ministership because of his 'values'

Gillard offered Greg Combet the prime ministership because of his ‘values’

Julia Gillard has said she offered to stand down as prime minister and back Greg Combet to take over in mid 2013 because she believed he best embodied the good values and clear sense of purpose that a Labor leader should have. Combet has revealed in his autobiography, The Fights of My Life, that Gillard had offered to stand aside in favour of him in June 2013 as Labor faced a resounding electoral…

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Both sides are finding party reform a challenging process

Both sides are finding party reform a challenging process

Bill Shorten’s reference to party reform was once-over-lightly when he addressed the NSW ALP conference on Sunday. Shorten said Labor had to “rebuild as a party of members, not factions”. Members had to be entitled to participate “in the choice of our leaders, our candidates, our policies”; Labor must be a party “where more people are more involved more often”.

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Julia Gillard offered to stand aside for me in Labor spill, says Greg Combet

Julia Gillard offered to stand aside for me in Labor spill, says Greg Combet

Julia Gillard offered to stand aside as prime minister in favour of her climate change and industry minister Greg Combet in June 2013 as Labor faced a resounding electoral defeat and Kevin Rudd was circling. Combet, now retired from politics, makes the revelation in his new book The Fights of My Life co-written with Mark Davis.

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Gillard said she'd stand down to make Combet PM

Gillard said she’d stand down to make Combet PM

Former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard offered to resign in favour of Greg Combet at the height of Labor’s leadership instability ahead of the 2013 election.

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