Australia's digital diplomacy in the age of the political selfie

By Kelsey Munro
Updated February 14 2016 - 10:18pm, first published 10:00pm
Foreign Affairs minister Julie Bishop and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Andrew Meares
Foreign Affairs minister Julie Bishop and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Andrew Meares

Australia's foreign affairs department has copped lots of criticism for being a digital dinosaur: slow to engage with social media, overly cautious about letting ambassadors blog or tweet, dead boring when it did finally get on Twitter and Facebook. It turns out there's fairly limited demand for tweets of press releases and rigid photos of embassy meeting rooms.

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