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What Australia can learn from the rise of populists around the world to avoid following Hanson down her rabbit hole

The Guardian - Media · Julianne Schultz · last updated

A quarter of the world’s democracies are now led by authoritarian regimes and almost none have media systems that are able to hold power to account

We must face it. The political system has changed. Playing catch-up won’t bring back the old order.

At its heart is an epochal transformation in the means of communication. In its wake this has remade the skill set required for political success.

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