Training One anecdote that really brings home the appeal and the opportunity of the Republic debate is the case of one of the R4U volunteers. At the St Kilda launch in June, we had a sausage sizzle on the foreshore and handed out enrolment and R4U material. The media We used the mainstream media. It was remarked to me that we had a 'disproportionate' amount of media coverage. Well that depends.
Young people make up a disproportionately small number of traditional media consumers.
Put simply, we don't read the newspaper, watch the TV news, or listen to current affairs radio. Of course, we targeted Triple J, the national youth broadcaster. Unfortunately their news policy was not to run stories on issues generated by candidates for elected positions. So even though R4U ran the only specifically youth-targeted campaign anywhere in the country, this didn't make it past the newsroom gatekeepers. We printed and sold over 150 T-shirts.