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This edited collection provides contemporary and interdisciplinary reflections on the changing patterns of civic participation in Australian democracy.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction - Lachlan Umbers and Sarah Murray;2 Citizen Guardians? Civic Engagement and Constitutional Conventions - Nicholas Barry; Narelle Miragliotta; Sarah Murray and Zim Nwokora; 3 Compulsory Voting in an Era of Democratic Disengagement - Jill Sheppard; 4 Early Voting and the Democratic Ideal - Lachlan Umbers; 5 Merely Advisory or Effectively Binding? The Status of Plebiscite Results in Australia - Paul Kildea; 6 Reflections on the Voice Referendum - Ryan Cox; 7 Understanding the Competing Sovereignty Claims of the Voice Referendum - Ron Levy and Justin McCaul; 8 Australian Civic Engagement: A Case Study of the 2023 Voice to Parliament Referendum - Andrea Carson; Phoebe Hayman and Justin Phillips; 9 The Unstable Foundations of the Implied Freedom of Political Communication - Murray Wesson; 10 Increasing Third-Sector Governance Expectations as a Barrier to Civic Engagement in Australia - Ian Murray and Sarah Murray; 11 Civic Engagement among the Australian African Diaspora: National and Transnational Activity - Farida Fozdar; Sarah Prout Quicke; Dominic Dagbanja; David Mickler; Nothando Ngwenya; Chika Anyanwu; Janet Dzator; Karen Farquarson; Alan Gamlen and Kiros Hiruy; 12 Australian Democracy and the Climate Crisis - Joo-Cheong Tham; Index
About the author
Sarah Murray is a Professor at the University of Western Australia Law School and is an expert in constitutional law and electoral law, court innovation and community justice centers.
Lachlan Umbers is Senior Lecturer and Chair of Philosophical Studies at the University of Western Australia. He works primarily in moral and political philosophy, with a particular focus upon issues in democratic theory and climate justice.
