The affair is a cautionary tale of what happens when negative campaigning, misinformation and clumsy politicking collide to kill policy – and political careers.
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Senior Lecturer, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
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Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Flinders University; University of Canberra
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Professor, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra