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Mick O'Regan

Mick O'Regan reviews ‘Party Games: Australian politicians and the media from war to dismissal’ by Bridget Griffen-Foley

September 2003, no. 254 01 September 2003
In the aftermath of the Iraq War, any book on the history of public relations and politics seems almost quaint. That’s not a criticism, because the events and ideas Bridget Griffen-Foley analyses in Party Games: Australian politicians and the media from war to dismissal highlight just how quickly and utterly PR has insinuated itself into the life of politics. Still, it is hard to resist a cynica ... (read more)