Tony Abbott on Australia's past and the opposition's future
Update: 2025-10-21
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The former Liberal prime minister says he wrote a new history book 'to help contemporary Australians think better of themselves'.
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The Making of an Autocrat
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Is America watching its democracy unravel in real time? In The Making of an Autocrat from The Conversation, six of the world’s pre-eminant scholars reveal the recipe for authoritarian rule. From capturing a party, to controlling the military, Donald Trump is borrowing from the playbook of strongmen thoughout history. This is the story of how democracies falter — and what might happen next.
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