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When Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off on television next week it will be the largest audience of their long careers, which both have lived in the glare of limelight. More than 100 million Americans are expected to tune in on the evening of 26 September – an astonishing viewership that would rank the event as among one of the most watched television broadcasts in US history. The rest have been Super Bowls. Monday’s debate, 56 years to the day after the first televised duel between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon, will almost certainly be a turning point in a turbulent election year in America – 12 months that have thrown into sharp relief the country’s deep polarisation and the breakdown of the Republican party. The course of debates can turn on personal defects, such as Richard Nixon’s five o’clock shadow in 1960. The screen can magnify character flaws and highlight a candidate’s competence. Ronald Reagan’s much-quoted putdown of Jimmy Carter – “there you go again” – underlined the fact he was offering not only change, but opened viewers’ eyes to his vision of America. Bill Clinton, then the insurgent outsider, pulled off the same trick in making then president George HW Bush look out of touch in 1992.

In this election the TV debate offers a chance for each candidate a chance to reset the narrative of their campaign. Mr Trump, a businessman-demagogue trading in crude economic populism, has less reason to do so. Last week’s terrorist attacks play into his claims that America is under siege. Democrat Hilary Clinton’s recent bout of pneumonia bolstered his nod-and-wink comments about her failing health. While Mrs Clinton has endured some of the worst weeks of her campaign, her Republican rival has been stealing headlines. While Mrs Clinton remains ahead in the polls, the momentum is with her rumour-mongering opponent. On paper Mrs Clinton should be able to swat away her opponent. She has the experience, the public policy competence and the chance to make history as the first female commander-in-chief of the most powerful nation on earth. She is also a better debater than retail politician.

The trouble with Mrs Clinton is twofold. One is biography. Thanks to being a public figure for decades, her positions today often contradict her publicly stated beliefs. Is she for intervention in Syria or not? Is she repudiating free trade deals she once championed or not? Does she want more government help in healthcare – or not? Little wonder, perhaps, that key voter groups such as millennials fail to warm to Mrs Clinton. The second problem for the former first lady and ex-secretary of state is that she is the continuity candidate in this election. She promises more of the same.

Her opponent does not. Mr Trump’s dog-whistle campaign has torn America apart along lines of race, gender and education. This is not just a break with the past, but threatens to splinter the country into warring parts. It would be a mistake to underestimate the real estate magnate. Mr Trump’s skill is his appeal to reptilian instincts. These reflexive inherent tendencies developed in humans to override a brain’s more sophisticated emotional response in times of crisis. This may explain why Mr Trump favours chaos over stability. The billionaire is also an accomplished television performer, bringing out the inner reptile on 14 seasons of his US reality show The Apprentice. Cruel patter as entertainment was his trademark. In the Republican primaries he wiped out opponents used to playing by different rules.

What Trumpism projects is pretty clear: building a wall; taking on China; Americanism not globalism. Mrs Clinton seems to have a hundred carefully costed policies but not one eye-catching slogan. She radiates a sensible incrementalism. She campaigns in prose, leaving poetry to her predecessor. This is a mistake. She needs to focus on what is driving discontent in America: an economic system that no longer defuses high levels of inequality with opportunities for all. Mrs Clinton may argue that after years of watching their incomes go nowhere, America’s middle class finally got a big raise last year – the first increase since 2007, the year before the Great Recession started. However, the middle classes remain poorer than in 2000. That’s 15 years of going backward. Mrs Clinton needs to find a resonant theme to sum up her policies: a Marshall Plan for the middle classes would not be a bad idea. Monday is her chance to show she is motivated by the common good. Mrs Clinton should seize it.
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9 bolts. a couple mid sized cams.Labor's environmental wing has accused the Greens of a "cynical and destructive" attack on the party's position on climate change after Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese backed the case for continued coal exports.
In a heated dispute over climate change action, the Labor caucus members and the party's environmental network lashed out at the Greens for claiming Mr Albanese valued coal "more than human life" because he would not back an export ban.
Labor came under attack from the Coalition as well as the Greens, with Resources Minister Matt Canavan calling on Mr Albanese to go further by declaring his support for the Adani coal mine in central Queensland.
Mr Albanese told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald that Australia should meet strong global targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but stopping Australian coal exports would only lead to other countries increasing their supplies.
The Opposition Leader also told radio station 2GB on Monday morning it was "obvious to all" there would not be a new coal-fired power station built in Australia.
Greens climate and energy spokesman Adam Bandt said young Australians would see Mr Albanese's comments on coal exports as proof that both Labor and the Liberals were "abandoning climate action" and fuelling a crisis.
"Liberal and Labor value coal more than human life," Mr Bandt said.
"Coal is fuelling the fires, coal is fuelling the drought, and coal is fuelling the smoke over Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane.
"If you don't have a plan to get out of coal, you don't have a plan to deal with the climate crisis. We stopped selling asbestos and we need to phase out coal exports, too."
The co-convener of the Labor Environmental Action Network, Felicity Wade, said the Greens appeared to not understand the Paris agreement on reducing global emissions, which assigns emissions to where they are produced.
Ms Wade also criticised Senator Canavan for his attack on Mr Albanese.
"This is just more cheap point scoring while Australia burns. Bandt and Canavan seem to work in lockstep, equal and opposite sides of a destructive culture war, ensuring the national cohesion needed to progress this challenge is rendered impossible," she said.
"We all know the task is overwhelming and urgent, but smashing the globally agreed pathway and our chance for shared progress is politics at its most cynical and destructive."
China is the world's biggest coal producer, with 47 per cent of production according to the International Energy Agency, followed by India, the United States, Australia and Indonesia.
Labor's shadow assistant minister for climate change, Pat Conroy, said the focus on Australia and Indonesia as major coal exporters often overlooked the fact many countries produced their own coal and would fill any gap in the market if Australia halted exports.
"These activists are going for lazy symbolism rather than doing the hard yards of fighting for strong domestic action to cut carbon emissions," Mr Conroy said.

"They're aiding and abetting the re-election of Coalition governments."
Labor backbencher Meryl Swanson, whose electorate of Paterson includes coal workers from the NSW Hunter Valley, said Mr Albanese was "absolutely right" to argue for action on climate change without a halt to coal exports.
"We have to stop pitting the environment against our economy – I think that is what we've got wrong for ten years," she said.
"The emotional stuff from Adam Bandt helps no-one. It's bordering on hyperbole and hysteria."
Labor is facing a long internal debate on a new target to replace its election pledge to reduce Australian greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent by 2030, with frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon calling for a lower target.
Caucus members cited the attack from the Greens as a sign that an agreement in Parliament would be difficult.
"We can get there is we work together rather than tearing each other apart," Ms Swanson said. "That hasn't worked for ten years. How about we try something different?"
Mr Albanese told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald that progress on the Adani coal mine would depend on its ability to get finance, subject to environmental approvals.
"The market will determine that," he said.There are numerous things to see and experience in Pairagachha, provided you have the right information. With a host of exciting things to do in Pairagachha