democracy

Australia’s Voice to Parliament referendum looks set to fail as a confused public struggles to tell fact from fiction.

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Don’t look now, but if you’re worried about the state of democracies now, just wait until next year.

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Social media has become a powerful tool for younger Indonesian voters to engage with a political system that otherwise leaves them at the margins.

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Thailand has astonished observers with a demurely grand political reconciliation to end months of political limbo.

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Political meddling and state violence could break Bangladesh’s fragile hold on democracy.

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Laws restricting basic freedoms may be made in the name of public order and national security, but they are often used against dissident voices.

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All sides of politics have a hand in how public servants became usurped by global consulting firms. The real winner could be the one who can fix it.

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There was hope after Thailand’s election that this would be a ‘liberal moment’ for the nation but those hopes have been dashed.

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After the ‘judicial coup’ to oust Pita Limjaroenrat, Thailand’s democratic future straddles the fault lines of its royalist elite and the will of its people.

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The potential for bias within AI systems poses great ethical challenges to the uptake of this technology.

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History recorded mass killings in Indonesia in 1965. One particular anti-communist film haunted Indonesians for years afterward.

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