WHY, AMONG SO MANY ISSUES, BRONWYN BISHOP'S HELICOPTER TRIP GETS OUR ATTENTION
Why has the issue of expense claims by House of Representatives Speaker Bronwyn Bishop dominated the news since mid-July? To understand how this one issue, of all the many political issues, has seized public attention, we need to understand how agendas are set. At any time, many issues are competing to get onto the public agenda. This has been defined as “that set of items explicitly up for the active and serious consideration of authoritative decision makers”. The media cert
