Deliberative Democracy in Australia: The Changing Place of Parliament.(Review) (book review)

Deliberative Democracy in Australia: The Changing Place of Parliament. By John Uhr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 265p. $64.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.

Lost among the hysteria in anticipation of the Sydney 2000 Olympics and the impending rash of millennium parties is the fact that Australia will celebrate an anniversary of considerable importance and achievement on January 1, 2001. This date will mark the centenary of the federal constitution and the Australian parliamentary forms defined within it. To date, most of the attention to this event has centered upon the ...

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