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Politicians are chipping away at our democracy. What will be left for the next generation?

24 September 2020

6:01 PM

24 September 2020

6:01 PM

It is reasonable to say that young people, in this country, are entitled to feel apprehensive over how Australia is today and how Australia ought to be. 

When you see the destructive behaviour of politicians, especially through their recently collective coronavirus responses, it is hard not to feel melancholy. 

Mind you, the same politicians have been slowly chipping away at our faith in democracy for a while now. 

Seek no further truth than the observations last week of the former economist with the Victorian Department of Finance and Treasury, Sanjeev Sabhlok, who said, on submitting his resignation in relation to governments’ response to coronavirus:

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