166-426 Communicating Politics

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How should politics be communicated? How good, and for what purposes, are the obvious modes of communicating politics - e.g. research followed by publication in academic journal or book? Research and report-writing for government or public service committees? Political commentary from the Canberra Press Gallery? Four Corners? What are the alternatives to the obvious ones? Consider (a sample only) - theatre, sermon, speeches (parliamentary and other), cartoon, graffiti, feature films, television drama and docu-dramas, talk shows, radio talk-back and expert commentary, popular music, dance, poetry, demonstrations, lobbying, street theatre, parades, novels, biography, etc.? What are the strengths and weaknesses in each? What different combinations of skills and talents - and motives/backgrounds - does each employ?

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