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Howard debates himself: exclusive preview

Howard vows to debate himself if Kevin Rudd won’t. How does this play out? Guy Rundle ponders the possibilities.

Googling the trail of a YouTube political smear

Today, major news outlets are intimating that a “slickly produced ad” is the soon-to-be-unleashed televisual work of a neocon spin paremedic. This, it seems, is the ham-fisted work of a party in trouble. No it’s not. I reckon some bloke with a PC made it. I just spoke with him, writes Helen Razer.