What do the changes in Australia’s governance mean for a post-COVID democracy?

29/06/2020 55 min Temporada 1 Episodio 168
What do the changes in Australia’s governance mean for a post-COVID democracy?

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As the National Cabinet is set to replace COAG as a forum for collective decision making, what do these changes mean for Australia’s democracy? Journalist George Meglogenis unpacks the impact of COVID-19 on Australian politics that his article discusses in The Age.And following the demolishing of the Hazelwood coal mine chimneys, Dylan speaks to author Tom Doig whose book ‘Hazelwood’ provides an eye opening account of the 2014 fires that choked the community of Morwell for weeks in the La Trobe valley and the events following the disaster.

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