Photo opportunity

A carefully planned situation in which a politician can be filmed or photographed doing something that makes them at the very least not look like a complete freak and possibly to be trusted with the fate of the nation.

To avoid undoing the magic, questions are often discouraged.

Fun Fact There are rare occasions when it is a question that produces the greatest magic. This is known as the Hayne–Frydenberg Paradox, in honour of the moment when a newspaper photographer asked for a handshake between Banking Royal Commissioner Kenneth Hayne and Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. The ghostly ‘nope’ that floated from Hayne’s lips crackled with an eerie, almost supernatural energy. It haunts us still.