Report Card: Federal politics

Jo Earp

By Jo Earp
Published November 27, 2013

PERSUASION was very much the theme in the political arena this year as Julia Gillard attempted to sell Labor's take ...

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This story appeared in the December 2013 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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