The danger of US-China war and Australia’s anti-democratic election laws


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The danger of US-China war and Australia’s anti-democratic election laws The new anti-democratic election laws in Australia, aimed at deregistering so-called minor parties, go hand in hand with the efforts of the political and media establishment to stifle and censor public debate on the most important issues facing working people. War between the United States and China, the world’s largest and second largest economies, both nuclear-armed, is an ever-growing danger. And successive governments—Coalition and Labor with the backing of the Greens—have placed Australia on the frontline of a US-China conflict. Nothing could make this clearer than the military agreement reached...