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Andy Ward, Senior Lecturer in Music, School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast

Why the Coalition’s tone-deaf diss track was bound to hit all the wrong notes

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Hip-hop is a cultural powerhouse that has infiltrated every facet of popular culture, across a global market. That said, one place you usually don’t see it is on the election campaign trail.

That’s right, I’m talking about the track “Leaving Labor” – the Liberal-National Coalition’s latest attempt to create beef with the Australian Labor Party, via a hip-hop track from an unnamed artist.

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