The best of both worlds? How Australia’s unique democracy evolved
Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...
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This town in Australia used to be a penal colony
When this stopped, the prisoners were then transported all the way to Australia. Penal transportation ... of the harshest forms of punishment in the colony. “Convicts loathed it.
Splits, fusions and evolutions: how Australia’s political parties took hold
In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today, and the ones that fell by the wayside.