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Hungary takes the John Howard route

Hungary's government comes to grief in an attempt to change the electoral law to its advantage, in much the same way that John Howard did in Australia.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Electoral law, Europe 5 Comments 6 January 2013

The perils of insular thinking

Melbourne's ticketing fiasco reflects the same sort of insularity that gave us compulsory voting and a broken school funding system, among other things.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Ideas, Political issues 4 Comments 3 January 201328 January 2022

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