New research shows Question Time has increasingly focused on the prime minister, raising questions about the ‘presidentialisation’ of Australian politics.
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The mega-wealthy buying into Australia’s increasingly concentrated media industry is nothing new – and it is a critical issue for democracy.
Democratic backsliding is raising alarm around the world – and there is some evidence of it happening in Australia, too.
Recent events show troubling signs that Islamophobia has become normalised, tolerated in ways other forms of racism are not.
A new report shows Australians don’t want to be reduced to merely voters. They want a democracy that listens, including between elections.
Australia must go to the polls to vote in a referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Some of us have never voted in a referendum, here’s what you need to know.
Australia has a long history of imaginative, even transformative, electoral politics – and a new book argues the 2022 federal election shows that spirit is still alive and well.
With world-first compulsory and preferential voting, Australia was born not on the battlefield but at the ballot box.
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow, Democracy and Citizen Engagement, Centre for Deliberative Democracy, University of Canberra
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Flinders University; University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith University
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Emeritus Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
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Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
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Distinguished Professor/UNESCO Chair-holder; Founding Director, Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI)
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Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Professor of Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW
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Lecturer of Media and Communication, Adelaide University
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Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University