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Democracy under Siege
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Australians are justly proud of their democratic traditions. Australia's system of government, established in 1900, drew upon British and United States models, selecting many of the best features of each. Recently, however, there have been many worrying signs. There are four aspects of democracy in Australia today about which Australians should be deeply concerned.
The first is the degree to which our political system relies on unwritten conventions and is thus vulnerable to attack by determined governments in a period of unprecedented growth in executive power. The Australian Constitution says nothing about many aspects of our current electoral, parliamentary and executive …
