As the 21st century proceeds apace, Australia faces new and old challenges, both domestically and internationally. These include managing complex governance issues, preventing democratic fracture, balancing an ever-shifting geo-political strategic order, addressing the recognition and identity demands of marginalised groups
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Introduction
Matteo Bonotti and Narelle Miragliotta
Part One: Australian Governance and its Challenges
1. A Party System in Crisis? Assessing the State of the Australian Party System [Narelle Miragliotta and Finley Watson]
2. The Challenges Facing Australian Federalism [Alan Fenna]
3. Australian Governance in an Era of Leadership Instability [Paul Strangio and James Walter]
Part Two: Making Australian Democracy Work - Trust, Integrity and Civility
4. The Challenge of Political Trust [Josh Holloway and Rob Manwaring]
5. Promise Breakers? Rebuilding Trust in Our Government [Frank Algra-Maschio and Robert Thomson]
6. The Integrity Debate in Australia: Perspectives from the Parliamentary Inquiry into the National Anticorruption Commission (NACC) [Zim Nwokora]
7. Incivility in Australia: Challenges and Opportunities [Matteo Bonotti and Steven T. Zech]
Part Three: Australia's Policy Issues in a Global Context: Climate Change, Migration and Geopolitical Security
8. Turning the Tide on Australian Climate Action [Nathan Fioritti and Robert Thomson]
9. Building a Fair Future: Transforming Immigration Policy for Refugees and Families [Matthew Lister]
10. Exogenous Crises and Australia's Development Policy [Eleanor Gordon, Samanthi J. Gunawardana and Lauren Lowe]
11. Global Canberra: Leveraging Australia's Strategic Partnerships [Remy Davison]
12. Nuclear dangers: Australia's role in global efforts for non-proliferation and disarmament [Marianne Hanson and Maria Rost Rublee]
Part Four: Australia's Systemic Social Issues: Inequality, Disadvantage and Discrimination
13. Income Inequality in Australia [Nicholas Barry]
14. The Participation of Young People in Australian Politics [Katrina Lee-Koo, Luke Dean and Zareh Ghazarian]
15. Australia's Woman Problem? The Rise and Fall of Gender Equality [Blair Williams]
16. Speaking with Two Voices: 'We, the People(s) of Australia'? [Paul Muldoon]
17. Australian Republicanism and the Colonial Fracture: Post-Colonial Nationalist and Decolonial Critiques of Monarchy [Ben Wellings]
