A hundred randomly selected australians could make a third house of parliament. The system would function very much as it had functioned before, he says. "The only thing is, all that was going to change was appearances" 'I didn't like this woman, but she was representing the voices of people who couldn't be heard otherwise,' Mr Abbott writes.
Nicholas Gruen is a widely published policy economist, entrepreneur and commentator. He has advised Cabinet Ministers, sat on Australia’s Productivity Commission and founded Lateral Economics and Peach Financial. We discuss:
- Fast foodification of Democracy
- Isegoria, or equality of speech
- Pros and Cons of a citizen jury
- How citizen juries help in nuanced policy discussions
- Using philanthropy for political experiments
- And MUCH more!
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