Dr Jackie Dickenson

Dr Jackie Dickenson is the Senior Research Associate on the ARC Discovery project 'Globalising the Magic System: a History of Advertising Industry Practice in Australia 1959-1989'. Before completing her PhD in labour history, Jackie worked in the advertising industry and taught creative advertising at RMIT University. She is the author of Trust Me: Australians and their Politicians (NewSouth Publishing, 2013), and has published extensively on political and advertising history. Her history of Australian advertising women will be published next year by Palgrave Macmillan.

 

There's a lot to be cynical about when it comes to taxpayer-funded advertising in Victoria. Yet there's no sign it'll vanish anytime soon. Jackie Dickenson explains. 

Campaign advertising that denigrates and humiliates political leaders is cheap in both senses of the word and damages our political culture, writes Jackie Dickenson.

Why are politicians generally viewed as untrustworthy? 
Dr Jackie Dickenson