Ideas@The Centre 24
Vol. 6 No. 24 (June, 2011) Freedom Quote of the Week'Parliament is not a Congress of Ambassadors from different and hostile interests ... [It] is a deliberative Assembly of one Nation with one Interest. You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not Member of Bristol, but he is a Member of Parliament.'
— Edmund Burke (1774) on parliamentary democracy
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Principled politics and populist plebiscites
| 24 Jun 2011
Plebiscites and other forms of direct democracy result in worse, not better, politics.
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A Key visit for New Zealand
| 24 Jun 2011
John Key speaks for closer economic collaboration between Australia and New Zealand.
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Another day, another ban
| 24 Jun 2011
Overzealous banning imperils Australia’s commitment to a free society.
