If the No vote wins, it will harm Australia’s Pacific diplomacy and be a gift to an expansionist China


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You can take it as fact that nations hostile to Australia’s brand of multicultural, democratic openness are desperate for the referendum to fail. And rest assured if it does, the bad guys will use it to their advantage. Across the world, democracies are in a struggle with a growing number of dictatorships. While the Dictators Club warily respects the collective military strength of allied democracies, it’s the power of example that truly terrifies them. Just by existing, democracies show those living under authoritarian regimes that there is another way. Playing into ‘whataboutism’ If democratic values are a superpower in the...