Archive for: smear campaigns

Tony Abbott’s Slippery Brough fingerprints

Tony Abbott’s Slippery Brough fingerprints

Tweet The LNP’s dirty tricks campaigns against Peter Slipper and Craig Thomson have Tony Abbott’s fingerprints all over them, says Bob Ellis. The modus operandi of the Slipper and Thomson smears bears striking resemblance to Abbott’s...

29 July, 2012 11:08 am / 21 comments

 

How the Right wins by cheating

How the Right wins by cheating

Tweet In the first of his exclusive weekly columns for Independent Australia, the great Bob Ellis explains why conservatives adore the politics of smear. By Bob Ellis Because Labor has good policies and the Right cannot attack them on their...

26 May, 2012 12:02 pm / 3 comments

 
 

 
 

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