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As the federal election campaign heats up, Jennifer Westacott warns politicians to urgently recalibrate their public messaging to make it more relevant to professionals, middle and low-income earners, who “just can’t see the light” in Australia.

Meanwhile, the nation's oldest, and largest, listed investment company has made three big bets on the current, volatile sharemarket. See which stocks Australian Foundation Investment Co boss Mark Freeman has bought. 

And learn how struggling spin machine Sodali thinks its communications business will fortify its balance sheet despite feeling a sharp financial sting last year.