Having the honour of addressing a citizenship ceremony a few years ago, I told the new citizens that the country whose citizenship they had just received was one of the world’s oldest continuing democracies.
Given that we have recently gained an international reputation for serious authoritarianism, it would be difficult to repeat that claim.
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The principal theme of ACM’s 22nd National Conference on 6 December, with Tony Abbott and Alan Jones, is the restoration of constitutional governance in emergencies.
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