Can TikTok memes influence an election? - a podcast by triple j

As the federal election looms next year, a new cohort of politically-engaged young people are turning Tiktok’s signature trends into some serious (and not so serious) Auspol content.

But what if the posts you’ve been seeing were paid for by the political parties themselves?

Australia has joined the US in staging a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next year because of human rights abuses in China.

Plus, would you move to the bush to work, if it meant all of your uni debt was wiped?

Live guests:
Andrew Hughes, political advertising researcher at Australian National University
Zali Steggall, Independent Federal MP, and former Olympian
Kate, junior doctor from Albury
Dr Dan Wilson, Rural Doctors Association

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