Rarely does a month go by without some Australian politician, journalist, or commentator lamenting the end of Australia’s reform era.
Ex-politicians like Lindsay Tanner, and journalists like Laura Tingle and George Megalogenis, have blamed the inability to enact necessary reforms on everything from the 24-hour news cycle and an over-reliance on opinion polls, to the decline of the federal bureaucracy.
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Patrick Hannaford is the Editor of Young Voices, and an Australian writer based in Washington DC. Follow him on twitter @PatHannaford
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