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A comment on Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The CIVICUS Monitor. Parent comment

Re:Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The... by rsynnott on Saturday December 07, 2019 @07:28AM (#21729919)
Protest is a sign of democracy, really. If you find yourself somewhere where there's never any protest, ever, well, you're probably somewhere very nasty indeed.
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Re:Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The... by BLKNSLVR on Saturday December 07, 2019 @07:53AM (#21730021)
Queensland is attempting to pass laws as a knee jerk reaction to some of the climate protests that disrupted traffic recently.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/09/queen...

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-09/extinction-rebelli...

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Re:Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The... by rsynnott on Saturday December 07, 2019 @08:19AM (#21730141)
Yeah, I've always had the impression that Australia, or at least its governments, has a disconcerting authoritarian streak that just isn't found to the same level in other western democracies. Possibly impacted by not having a real equivalent to either a US style bill of rights or something like the ECHR.
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