Democracy

11 Dec 2013 | The make-up of Australia’s Parliament demonstrates that it ‒ like the rest of Australian ...

7 Nov 2013 | George Monbiot believes the world is being battered by a "full frontal assault on democracy" by a ...

6 Nov 2013 | Australia’s most respected political commentators have criticised the Coalition Government’s ...

6 Sep 2012 | The rise of radical conservatives, who control almost all the mainstream media and care little ...

14 Aug 2012 | Australian Financial Review's Chief Economics editor, Laura Tingle's sweeping condemnation of A ...

20 Nov 2011 | Why do we end up with village idiots representing our electorates rather than village elders? ...

14 Mar 2011 | With the alarming concentration of media ownership in Australia and the advent of PR driven ...

23 Dec 2010 | Tony Abbott is an elitist, a homophobe and a misogynist — Australians must not allow him to take ...

28 Aug 2010 | Distinguished Labor politician, Carmen Lawrence, when WA Premier This is ...

24 Aug 2010 | Our democracy is under attack in Australia, writes Mark Aldridge, and those in ...

23 Aug 2010 | If the election was a referendum on the Government then the Coalition has ...

22 Aug 2010 | The chair of the New Zealand Republican Movement, Lewis Holden, discusses the ...

19 Aug 2010 | Just further to the previous post, Dr Klaas Woldring also had a brilliant article in the ...

17 Aug 2010 | Many pundits say that the federal election is going to be extremely close and the ...

16 Aug 2010 | If you support Independent and honest democracy and find yourself in Adelaide ...

12 Aug 2010 | The Liberal Party has been caught engaging in dirty tricks in the federal election ...

10 Aug 2010 | Mark Aldridge is an Independent candidate for the Federal Senate in South ...

7 Aug 2010 | This is the first in a new series by IA on "democracy activists", or people wh ...

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