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Published 03-07-2017
ISBN 9780522872163
Pages 120
Subjects Society and culture: general
Imprint MUP Digital

Reboot

A Democracy Makeover to Empower Australia's Voters

Richard Walsh

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Published 03-07-2017
ISBN 9780522872163
Pages 120
Subjects Society and culture: general
Imprint MUP Digital

Australia's political system needs a revolution. This is the call to action.

If you want real change, change the system.

Reboot offers a tantalising glimpse of a better future, where politicians work directly and closely with those who voted for them.

Utopian? Disillusional? Richard Walsh makes a tour de force argument for doing away with the senate, embracing a republic and having a government where the prime minister and ministers are the best people in the country, not just chosen from the politicians who sit in the parliament.

Richard Walsh was co-editor of OZ magazine in the 1960s and editor of Nation Review in the 1970s. He has been managing director of Angus & Robertson Publishers, chief executive of Australian Consolidated Press and is currently a commissioning publisher at Allen & Unwin. He has written for both television and the stage; this is…