{"id":130,"date":"2014-10-18T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T12:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=130"},"modified":"2014-10-18T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T12:58:34","slug":"three-things-must-change-for-a-healthier-democracy-the-drum-australian-broadcasting-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Three things must change for a healthier democracy &#8211; The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-10-17\/dunlop-three-things-must-change-for-a-healthier-democracy\/5820612\">Three things must change for a healthier democracy &#8211; The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"published\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-10-17\/opposition-leader-tony-abbott-tours-the-press\/5821088\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Enforces the status quo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/image\/2712092-3x2-340x227.jpg\" alt=\"Enforces the status quo\" width=\"340\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"attached-content ready\">\n<div class=\"inline-content photo left\"><a class=\"inline-caption\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-10-17\/opposition-leader-tony-abbott-tours-the-press\/5821088\"><strong>PHOTO:<\/strong>\u00a0Whether it&#8217;s the media or the MPs that trivialise politics isn&#8217;t the point. The point is it enforces the status quo.<span class=\"source\">(Alan Porritt: AAP)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"first\"><strong><em>There are three drivers in Australian politics &#8211; the parties, the voting system and the media &#8211; that are all connected and self-supporting. And all are conspiring to hollow out our democracy, writes Tim Dunlop.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To listen in on any halfway serious discussion of politics these days is to eavesdrop on a cacophony of dissatisfaction. Issues come and go, but the underlying unease remains no matter how much we vent or how many logical arguments we make about a given issue.<\/p>\n<p>The reason the whole kabuki is so unsatisfactory is because we spend too much time worrying about the day-to-day issues rather than addressing the underlying drivers of our problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link for the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three things must change for a healthier democracy &#8211; The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). &nbsp; PHOTO:\u00a0Whether it&#8217;s the media or the MPs that trivialise politics isn&#8217;t the point. The point is it enforces the status quo.(Alan Porritt: AAP) There are three drivers in Australian politics &#8211; the parties, the voting system and the media &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41,204,636,637],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-australia","tag-democracy","tag-political-systems","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}