Grattan on Friday: Imagine if we could extract a permanent vaccine against hyper-partisanship from COVID-19
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
As the COVID-19 transforms our individual lives, we are learning a few new things about ourselves as a society.
We’ve known Australians suspect authority and, like other Western countries, have come to trust government less and less – right? One goes to our historical narrative; the other is borne out by quantitative research. And we...