There is a ‘deep disquiet’ within liberal democracies: a feeling, manifested on both sides of politics, that the conventional order has failed and is beyond reform.
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Director, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW
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Adjunct Associate Professor and Research Director, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Australian National University
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW
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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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Emeritus Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
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Associate professor in urbanism, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University