Why has the political debate become such an uninspiring event today? It’s difficult to find someone political who wants to genuinely argue for their position.
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We may believe that Australians are disengaged from the political process, but that may be because we’re not looking in the right places.
The university should be the bastion of the right to free expression in the promotion of democracy, and has a moral and ethical obligation to provide spaces for fierce debate and critical engagement.
We need political and civil society leaders to reflect on the language that they use, and to strive to shape a civic narrative with which we can all engage.
The debate over the debates rages on, and the broadcasters’ decision to widen the field could have unexpected consequences.
We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, in which the major influences have been secularism, materialism, utilitarianism, urbanisation, remoteness from nature, institutional failure (especially in…
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