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The "electoral mandate" serves a useful function as a political weapon in competitive party democracies, notwithstanding the ambiguities, multi‐layered complexities and uncertainty of many of the issues which the concept involves. The diverse uses of "mandate" indicate competing ideas in Australian politics about the responsibilities of parties to pursue commitments made during campaigns and the extent of rights to govern. This article portrays mandate not as a "theory" or "doctrine", but as a rhetorical device that needs to be examined in the context of "contested word use" in political speech. The renewed interest in the study of rhetoric reflects the usefulness of examining multiple and layered meanings that exist under what ostensibly may appear as "empty rhetoric", and to understand how rhetoric is used to persuade an audience of the validity of a particular action or viewpoint. While mandate often comes under attack as "meaningless", it is a useful persuasive tool employed by politicians to consolidate their legitimacy and justify their rights to implement a political agenda and, as such, it contributes to public discourses relating to the nature of political representation.

Abstract
Police organizations in Western liberal democracies are under increasing pressure to generate effective means of engaging with the communities that they serve. Established as a contemporary means of communication engagement, many police organizations have turned to social media to interact with citizens. A growing body of work examines the nature of public engagement with police social media. However, it tends not to differentiate by the features of place. This article starts to fill this gap by examining the effectiveness of the police use of Facebook as an engagement tool with rural communities, reporting on research conducted in the United Kingdom and in Australia. The aim here is to identify what type of content rural police Facebook pages are posting and whether certain post types and post-characteristics are associated with higher levels of engagement. We argue that certain characteristics of Facebook posts assist in gaining 'cut through' and thus effective engagement with rural communities. Implications for community engagement are discussed.

The key reference guide to rural crime and rural justice, this encyclopedia includes 85 concise and informative entries covering rural crime theories, offences, and control. It is divided into five complementary sections: theories of rural crime; rural crime studies; rural criminal justice studies and responses; rural people and groups; rural criminological research. With contributions from established and emerging international scholars, this authoritative guide offers state-of-the-art synopses of the key issues in rural crime, criminology, offending and victimisation, and both institutional and informal responses to rural crime.

This month, the Victorian government announced on-the-spot fines for trespassers on farms following an upper house inquiry into how animal activism affects agriculture. It's the latest in a string of new state and federal laws designed to crack down on activists who trespass on farms – often to gather video evidence of alleged animal cruelty, which is later distributed to the public. But amid the flurry of attention on activists, another group of trespassers on farms has largely escaped attention: illegal hunters.