Bethanie, Elizabeth and Sarina look into what makes an effective publicity stunt or flashmob, and how to interview famous people. Spoiler: don't tell your interviewee about your threesome in a closet.  roadtest MasterChef magazine. All that, plus MasterChef magazine, Kate Middleton and Co-Director of the National Young Writers' Festival, Bhakthi Puvanenthiran.

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Where do us young people go for information? Google!
 
So Google's collecting a whole bunch of election content and compiling it in new and interesting ways for Google Student Voice 2010.
 
We spoke to Lucinda Barlow, from Google Australia.

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We're not the only young'uns reporting the election... our friends over at vibewire are getting in on the action through their online project electionwire, and on their youtube channel.
 
Electionwire reporter Meagan Weymes dropped in to Below the Line to compare notes on electorates to watch, issues to follow (and to swap contact books).

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Are kids too often exposed to songs, TV shows and movies that are too risque for their age? How much do tots and kids pick up from their increased saturation in the media?

Emma Buckley Lennox reports.

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NITV - National Indigeneous Television - is a two-year-old station by, for and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, but it faces an uncertain future as the government's funding arrangement expires on June 30.

Chief executive Pat Turner says efforts to find out if it would be continued had met with "radio silence" from the government.

Panorama's Nick Toscano reports.

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Lots of young Australians saw Kevin '07 as a new beginning after 11 years of knowing only the one conservative government. Rudd's been PM for over two years now, so how's he doing so far? And how big is the difference between him and Howard?
 
Panorama's Nick Toscano and Meaghan Dew look at the man, the myth and the media spin of Kevin Rudd.

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