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When Politicians Shut Out the Press: A Warning from Australia
Australia’s politics has, in recent weeks, been marked by two parallel but vastly different controversies. The first centred on remarks made by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a podcast appearance while the second involved a decision from One Nation leader Pauline Hanson to block the national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and other media outlets from…
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Thoughts on Decolonising Democracy
This paper examines the disturbing and potentially ruinous effects of our crumbling global order on the spirit and substance of democracy, not only within the heartlands of the declining American empire but also in Canada, Germany, South Africa, the Netherlands, Italy, Australia, South Korea and other small and medium-sized outlier democracies which were once its…
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From Memes to Movements: The Gen Z Accountability Crusade and Democratic Resilience in Southeast Asia
This paper examines how a younger digitally native generation is redefining political participation and democratic accountability across Southeast Asia’s fragile democracies. Building on a comparative study of youth movements in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand, it explores how youth culture transforms humour, irony, and popular culture—often dismissed as ‘mere memes’—into potent tools of resistance and…
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India’s Cockroaches Have a Message for the World
Gen Z has already passed the baton in India. After spotlighting the country’s broken public examinations through an unprecedented popular movement, it is Gen Alpha’s turn to lay bare even deeper layers of dysfunction in India’s education system. There’s a message for the world in all this, and it better listen, because India’s education crisis is…
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Democratic Resilience in the United States in the Second Trump Presidency
This paper focuses on the challenges of backsliding and recovery in the United States. What are the primary sources of resilience, and what are the chances that American democracy can rebuild in the aftermath of the Trump era?
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