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Schapelle Corby fails to draw a Twitter audience

  • Written by Axel Bruns, Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology

Between the bombshell announcement of further deep staff cuts at Fairfax publications, subsequent strike action by its journalists, the handing down of the 2017 federal budget, and the much-publicised return of drug smuggler Schapelle Corby to Australia, the news in May was surprisingly strongly focused on domestic Australian issues.

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