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What Latham fails to point out is that if the Australian people fail on 24 November to take advantage of the opportunity before them to throw from office the worst Government by far that this country has had since federation, then a very dangerous precedent will have been set. In covering up this basic reality, Latham is, himself, undermining the very democracy he claims he wants to see rejuvenated.

What can be more condescending than the demand that someone reveal his or her judgment in thirty seconds or less? To appear before TV viewers as 'typical' (and therefore average and not too exceptional!). What greater insult than to imply that reporters can reduce the public psyche to a set of questions and answers in which the assumption is already made that the TV presenter is the clever one!

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