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Australian Books

Hunting for bogeymen

20 July 2013

9:00 AM

20 July 2013

9:00 AM

The Misogyny Factor Anne Summers

NewSouth, pp.182, $19.95, ISBN: 9781742233840

The Stalking of Julia Gillard: How Team Rudd and the media contrived to bring down the Prime Minister Kerry-Anne Walsh

Allen and Unwin, pp.305, $29.99, ISBN: 9781742379227

Here is how you make a conspiracy theory: take a couple of facts, stir in a few assumptions, then add a heroic victim and plenty of villains. And — this part is very important — simply leave out anything that doesn’t fit your preconceptions. A good conspiracy theory will elevate its hero to the status of a saint, or a martyr, or, best of all, both.

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