Australia is one of the oldest continuing democracies in the world. As our constitution says, the politicians are ‘directly chosen by the people’.
Not always. We now have senators who rather than being chosen by the people, sit in the senate as a result of shady backroom deals.
At times they even hold the balance of power on issues crucial to the nation.
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David Flint is co-author with Jai Martinkovits of Give Us Back Our Country, 2nd edn., Connor Court.
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