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New bipartisan electoral laws seek to shore up Australian political establishment

On the fraudulent pretext of protecting the electoral system from control by “billionaires,” the Australian Labor government, backed by the Liberal-National Coalition, is seeking to rush through ...

When Indigenous voices fall silent, the democracy air has already gone bad

There is a gap in Australian political attention, media coverage and academic scholarly literature about Indigenous policy ...
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Splits, fusions and evolutions: how Australia’s political parties took hold

Political parties are integral to the Australian political system, yet also largely absent from the Commonwealth Constitution itself. They are not entirely absent: a constitutional amendment in 1977 – ...
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Australian democracy is not dead, but needs help to ensure its survival

Mark Evans has received funding and in-kind support to complete democratic audits in the United Kingdom (Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust) and Australia (Museum of Australian Democracy at Old ...

Is Australia still a lucky country – or has the ‘Australian way’ lost its way?

We Should Be So Lucky is a missed opportunity to analyse the contradictory effects of the neoliberal revolution – and its ...
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Australian Labor government complicit in Assange extradition threat

A ruling on Tuesday by the British High Court places WikiLeaks publisher and Australian citizen Julian Assange a hairs breadth away from extradition to the US. There, he would be imprisoned for up to ...