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'After spending much of my life dedicated to the serious craft of politics, I have to admit that I am distressed by what it is becoming. Under siege from commercial pressures and technological innovation, the media are retreating into an entertainment frame that has little tolerance for complex social and economic issues. In turn, politicians and parties are adapting their behaviour to suit the new rules of the game - to such an extent that the contest of ideas is being supplanted by the contest for laughs.' When Lindsay Tanner resigned in 2010 as the ALP's federal minister for finance and member for Melbourne, having had an 18-year career as an MP, he notably managed to retire with his reputation for integrity intact. In Sideshow, he lays bare the relentless decline of political reporting and political behaviour that occurred during his career. Part memoir, part analysis, and part critique, Sideshow is a unique book that tackles the rot which has set in at the heart of Australian public life.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government

• Full title: Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy
• Author: Lindsay Tanner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781921844898
• ISBN: 1921844892
• ID: 05030852
• Publisher: Scribe Publications
• Weight: 212 g
• Dimensions: 131 × 198 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. July 2012

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