BotD: Rapping the election; declaring the influencers; and Stepho’s next hire

Welcome to Best of the Day, on a day when politician Monique Ryan decided she had an opinion about influencers after all; Albo declared his love for the print medium; Michael Stephenson’s speed dial got stuck on N, and the Coalition got down with the kids.

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