This week marks the 50th anniversary of my election to the House of Representatives on 25 October, 1969. What has changed since then? What is better? What is worse? Do we have a more vibrant democracy than we had 50 years ago? Or are things much the same? My conclusions: there have been enormous changes, very few of them have been for the better and, like a lot of changes, most have been for the worse.
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