Tag: Australian democracy
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Paul Keating Says Kerr Should Have Been Arrested: Recalling the 1975 Australian Crisis
Keating’s Bold Claim Rekindles a Historic Debate Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating has reignited one of the country’s most controversial constitutional episodes by saying that Sir John Kerr, then governor-general, should have been arrested during the tumultuous period that led to the sacking of the Whitlam government. Keating’s remark, delivered in the wake of…
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Australia’s Democracy: Peculiarities That Make It Unique
Introduction: A democracy unlike any other Australia’s democratic system often feels prosaic – a reliable, everyday machine with a trademark sausage sizzle outside polling places and the steady hum of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) conducting elections with clinical efficiency. Yet behind the beige pragmatism lies a set of distinctive features that confounds some observers…