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Author: David Pledger

Please adjust your frequency: Liberating Democracy from the White Noise

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The world’s a bloody mess. And it’s all democracy’s fault, isn’t it? This idea that democracy has failed us, that it’s broken, gains traction. Sure, democracy is being challenged. Just in the last month Vladimir Putin banned virtual private networks used by democracy activists to evade censorship, Venezuela’s constituent assembly poll was boycotted by more

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Australia’s Cultural Revolution – it’s time to remake the Australia Council

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In 2015, George Brandis inadvertently catalysed the cultural revolution the Australian arts needs to have if it is to drag itself kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Aided and abetted by a Senate Inquiry, a Federal Election and the dumping of the aforementioned Attorney-General as Arts Minister, the landscape continues to transform. The decades-long

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