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Article: Peter McMahon: reinventing the ALP. (letters and debate).(Letter to the Editor)
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- Arena Magazine
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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The need for change in Australian politics is becoming increasingly urgent. We have in the past been lucky, but those fortunate conditions are changing. To flourish, Australia must engage with the looming environmental crisis, in terms of global issues like climate change, and its own national problems like salination. It must also find a balance as a major power in a region in which most people do not share its dominant cultural values or wealth. It must address the division between the winners and losers in Australia resulting from increasing globalisation. It must achieve Aboriginal reconciliation; and it must bring the young and the old, the increasingly permanent ...