Society
The Eagle in the Mirror by Jesse Fink & My Mother the Spy by Cindy Dobbin and Freda Marnie Nicholls
by Michael Sexton •
Free and Equal: What would a fair society look like? by Daniel Chandler
by Glyn Davis •
The Shrinking Nation: How we got here and what can be done about it by Graeme Turner
by Zora Simic •
The Queen is Dead: The time has come for a reckoning by Stan Grant
by Malcolm Allbrook •
On 27 May 1967, a proposal to change two clauses of the Australian Constitution won the approval of 90.77 per cent of those who voted, the highest ever achieved in an Australian referendum. In the forthcoming referendum, according to various opinion polls, the best the advocates for a ‘yes’ vote can hope to achieve is a bare majority. How can this difference be explained? Several factors appear to be at work. They range from the simple, which are acknowledged, to the complex, which don’t seem to be known.
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