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 <o:p></o:p>Items were categorised as instancing one topic only.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus an <em style="">Australia Talks Back </em>programme addressing the question &ldquo;Should Australia boycott the upcoming cricket tour of Zimbabwe?&rdquo; was categorised under Politics because the emphasis was more on the politics than on the game (11 callers as against 7).<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Politics</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Includes, eg, PM John Howard discussing the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> war, a nurses&rsquo; strike in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Victoria</st1:state></st1:place>.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Where a discussion overlaps with Social Issues, such as Victorian Government funding for the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Geelong</st1:city></st1:place> by-pass, topic categorisation depends on the degree of emphasis given to the politics of the funding as against the social benefits of improved traffic flows.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Social Issues</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Includes, eg, health, sexuality, ethnic affairs, traffic and accidents, unless their manifestations become a crime or politics.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where a discussion overlaps with Politics, such as superannuation regulations, topic categorisation depends on the degree of emphasis given to the effects on superannuants as against the politics of the funding.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Crime</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Includes administration of justice.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Consumer Affairs</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Includes, eg, land taxes for mortgagees, transport services, interest rates unless they are politicised or criminalised.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Subsumes discussions of &ldquo;lifestyle&rdquo;, eg the virtues of the Prado car.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Entertainment</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Inc discussions of media, journalism and culture (eg Jones waxing lyrical about Lady Antonia Fraser in a piece on Pinter&rsquo;s Nobel Prize&hellip;).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Sport<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Other</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Inc oddballs such as individual success stories, environmental threats such as a plague of locusts, the celebration of Anzac Day.</p>
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