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Compulsory voting in Australia is 100 years old. We should celebrate how special it makes our democracy
For nearly 200 years, the notion of American political exceptionalism has had currency in the United States: it is an idea rooted in the nation’s status as the first modern republic. As we watch from afar, disturbed yet mesmerised by the latest chapter of …