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Weekly Politics with The Echidna: What election debates truly tell us

Join The Canberra Times journalists Steve Evans and Alex Crowe for a weekly podcast in the countdown to the federal election. on The Echidna (formerly Talk of the Times) they'll speak to the journalists tasked with reporting on the election campaign and the experts who'll help make sense of it.

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