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Advertising : a suitable career? -- Educating shoppers in the 1920s -- Elma Kelly's empire : an Australian in Asia -- Looking out to the world -- The girls who made it -- Advertising and beyond -- Women experts and consumer culture -- Selling fashion after World War Two -- Bold invaders : the impact of the women's movement

It's not news that Australians don't trust their politicians, and relationships between politicians & people who elect them is not warm and cuddly. While we're told that cynicism about politics is on the rise, argues that having blind trust isn't a desirable alternative either. And does rise of personality politics make it all the media's fault?

This study is concerned with the cultural knowledge that advertising professionals bring to their tasks and the ways in which this knowledge might be recycled or remade through advertising processes and practices. Using interviews with advertising creatives who have drawn from "history" for their advertising concepts, the article explores the historical literacy of these professionals and the ways in which they use the past in developing ideas. It finds that advertising creatives approach the past pragmatically, recycling pre-existing conceptions of past historical events and characters, and layering these with additional elements taken from contemporary popular culture, making something new in the process.

Recent scholarship has examined the decline of trust between citizens and the elected representatives, which is seemingly a hallmark of contemporary Western democracies. But the problem is not new. This study draws on newspaper accounts to trace the accumulation and erosion of trust in the Scullin federal Labor government, during its early months. Elected on 12 October 1929, James Scullin's government was expected to resolve the long‐running New South Wales' miners' strike; his deputy, E.G. Theodore, promised Labor would return the miners to work on pre‐stoppage conditions. The promise was undeliverable. The lockout dragged on through Scullin's first months in office, with the miners refusing to work on reduced wages and the government unable to deliver on Theodore's pledge. By the end of January 1930, the government's trust relations with its core constituency had unraveled. This case study illustrates how trust is made and unmade through complex relations between individuals, and between individuals and institutions.