Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

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Australian voters have never been allowed to vote on — or hear a proper debate about — the disastrous AUKUS pact.

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Talk of Australian peacekeepers in Ukraine is “welcome”, the country’s envoy in Canberra says amid crumbling US support for ...