Australia is in the midst of moral and ethical decline

By John Hewson
Updated July 2 2021 - 3:08am, first published December 27 2018 - 7:00pm
CHALLENGE: Steve Smith and other Australian leaders have really let the people down in recent years. Picture: AAP Image/Paul Braven
CHALLENGE: Steve Smith and other Australian leaders have really let the people down in recent years. Picture: AAP Image/Paul Braven

Much is said these days about the so-called “trust deficit” – not just in the form of a loss of confidence in our politicians and our political process, but more broadly across a range of institutions that are fundamental to a functioning democracy, where trust had basically been taken as undeniable, essentially as a given.

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