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From Tampa to now: how reporting on asylum seekers has been a triumph of spin over substance

This year marks the 15th anniversary of one of the most divisive national election campaigns in Australia’s recent history: the Tampa affair.

Xau 4dComing just weeks after the September 11 terror attacks, the pitched battle between John Howard and Kim Beazley drew heavily on fear and panic.

The divisions of…

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