Abstract
If elections are primary communal rites of the nation state then the policy speeches which traditionally launch them are essentially liturgical, a verbal form of public worship.
The spectacle, like modern society, is at once unified and divided ... the demonstrated division is unitary, while the demonstrated unity is divided.
(Debord 1977)
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Gillen, P. (1989). National Liturgies: Policy Speeches in Four Australian Election Campaigns, 1949–83. In: Wilson, H. (eds) Australian Communications and the Public Sphere. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11077-3_11
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