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Anton Savage: Want to win a referendum vote? It’s the principles, stupid
The government could learn a lot from a set of principles contained in one influential book
Referendum campaigns are meant to persuade people, not confuse them, as the family and carers campaigns did. The reason for the confusion, we are told, is because the constitution is a profound document, with wide-ranging and non-linear impacts and these provisions are not simple matters. This is, of course, guff.
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