The day before the federal election, we ask what we've gained from the last six weeks of election campaigning. Reformed journalists Sam Ikin and Chris Glassock analyse the horrendous bombardment of spin and public relations messaging that Australia has been subject to and try to see if there's any sense in it at all. Sam says "Public relations and the news media are so closely intertwined that they should be considered the same industry," and we would be better off going into a news blackout for three months. They also chat with Tasmanian senate candidate Topher Field to see what it's like from the inside as an outsider.

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