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As we all should know, the term propaganda has become a word only applied to totalitarian regimes, in democracies we call the same phenomenon communications. Hence in Australia the goebbelesce institution is called Government Communications Unit.

A Wikipedia article on propaganda gives us the following explanation:

"Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. Instead of impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. The most effective propaganda is often completely truthful, but some propaganda presents facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience."

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Currently Australians are being flooded with ads on TV, radio, and in print media, trying to convince everyone who doesn't run a business, that the latest attack by the Liberal government on the benefits of employees is a good thing for all involved. So while schools and hospitals are lacking funds, our current government always seems to have millions of dollars to spend on their propaganda. Sadly, pointing this out just leads to a finger-pointing game, with the Liberal government noting "Labor has also done it".

I'm just glad someone else had the same idea, to create a series of videos with sticky notes, based on the original financed by our government, that states the actual facts.

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