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Demockracy

29 November 2016

7:18 AM

29 November 2016

7:18 AM

RUSSIA-HISTORY-POLITICS-WWIIAustralia is becoming a mock democracy; a demockracy. It is observable on a daily basis as some politicians, journalists and academics mouth their repurposed Orwellian language of control. Truth cleansing is rife. Democratic principles are no longer fixed; they are seen as fluid as gender in some quarters, just as journalistic principles need no longer be bound by objectivity and facts.

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