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The carbon price "debate" shows the effects of decades of spin. "Carbon cops", busting down your front door and scaring the kids in pursuit of unauthorised emissions, had been invented by the Coalition.

Carbon cops run amok in a world of spin

Aug 01, 2011

If the public don’t really care about spin, why are journalists so preoccupied by it? <b>Brent Hooley</b>, an author and former government media adviser, discusses.

In defence of a spinner in the works

Apr 18, 2011

The public understand that a certain degree of truth bending is part and parcel with politics, but our current crop of pollies too often present themselves as rude and obnoxious gas bags. They need to go back to spin school, writes <b>Jane Fynes-Clinton</b>.

Our pollies need to go back to spin school

Oct 14, 2010

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spins a story better than most PR people. He sidesteps tricky questions by instead attacking the US, changes his answer depending on the audience and relies on a translator, making it easy to ignore interviewers' questions.

The master spinner from Iran

Sep 20, 2010

Tony Abbott loves a snappy scripted slogan -- "great big new tax" -- while Kevin Rudd is more of an acronym man --"ETS, RSPT etc". It's the only amusing thing in this tit-for-tat mining tax fight, writes <b>Dennis Atkins</b>.

Atkins: The cruel jibes of snivelling schoolboy pollies

May 25, 2010

Politics has become theatre, played simply to feed the media spectacle. Therefore, rather than focus on long term policy and ideas, politicians only care about creating conflict and a headline story.

Scoops, spin and gaffes: how the media portrays politics

May 24, 2010

Can we make this budget not like every other policy the Rudd government announces? pleads <b>Nikki Savva</b>. Just explain it simply, ditch the spin and don't claim that it's bigger and better than it is.

Savva: Unlocking the Rudd riddle

May 11, 2010

In 18 months Kevin Rudd and co have managed to get our national debt to a whopping one fifth of a trillion dollars. Prepare to watch Wayne Swan spin out of control with this budget, writes <b>John Izzard</b>.

Putting debt through the spin cycle

May 10, 2010

Yes, it was perhaps a closer election in South Australia on the weekend than the ALP would have liked, but there are two significant lessons to learn for the federal election. Be positive and be careful of the spin, says <b>Chris Kenny</b>.

How the SA election can help Rudd win

Mar 24, 2010

Prior to the 2007 election, Kevin Rudd has us all fooled as the workaholic bureaucrat, obsessed with policy. But really, Rudd's all spin, with no dedication to follow policies through, writes <b>Malcolm Turnbull</b>.

Turnbull: Just ’cause Kevin looks nerdy, doesn’t mean he knows what he’s doing

Mar 10, 2010

Oh to have been a fly on the wall yesterday as the Prime Minister and his boyish team of advisers scenario-played their Mea Culpa Strategy.

Sorry Kevin, apologies will only go so far

Feb 26, 2010

<em>Crikey</em> came up with some scenarios (OK ripped them off from real-life events) for the poisonous Malcolm Tucker from <em>In the Loop</em> to spin. Apologies in advance for the profanity and the lols.

Advice from Malcolm Tucker: nail the line, Ron Jeremy style

Feb 09, 2010

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