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What senior officials think about ALP branch members
The ALP's branch membership has declined dramatically in recent decades, and power within the party has become more concentrated with union and factional heavyweights. Some (by no means all) of those senior officials are highly critical of the party's membership. Essentially, these union officials believe union affiliation is necessary to ensure the ALP remains middle of the road, electable and connected to the real world of working people. Here are some indicative quotes (from my thesis) from senior national union officials with long involvement in the ALP: The NSW ALP has 14,800 members and 8,000 of those are retired people,...
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Social media newsrooms in large Australian companies
The concept of social media newsrooms has been around for at least five years now. It seemed an obvious development with the explosion of social media in recent years. People are increasingly accessing news and information through social media, to the extent where these platforms (eg facebook, twitter, youtube) are becoming critically important in terms of distribution as well as content creation. In these circumstances, it made a lot of sense, or it seemed to, for major organisations to move onto social media platforms - and many have. The ideal of a social newsroom however is integration; achieved by the...
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