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January 2007

Opinion

Silencing the critics

January 28, 2007 by Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison in The Age

Like individual citizens, community groups are being worn down and are increasingly reluctant to engage in the democratic process because they no longer believe that they can make a difference. At the same time, certain influential business lobbies have been brought into the fold, along with a few tame or uncritical NGOs such as Mission

Opinion

The repression of the bleeding hearts

January 28, 2007 by Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison in The Sydney Morning Herald

The outcome for the broader Australian polity is that the knowledge and breadth of experience collected together in the NGO community is having much less influence on how we develop as a society than it should. Like individual citizens, community groups are being increasingly reluctant to engage in the democratic process because they no longer