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With thanks to @DrLiz for recommending this, have recently read it. Broadly, it's a diagnosis I agree with. I quibble with some framing and emphases, but not importantly. It ends on a depressing note, with which I sympathise. The election of the ALP just swapped competent grifters for incompetent grifters. My conclusion, not Turner's. An improvement of sorts, I guess. But not enough. Nowhere near enough. I genuinely appreciate the likes of Turner, John Keane, @timdunlop, @DeniseShrivell but my greatest concern is that we are in uncharted waters and few are coming forward with suggestions about how we remediate our dire political situation, let alone act. That's likely because we have not been here before. Commentary is good, and we certainly don't get it from legacy media, with honourable exceptions (like Ross Gittins eg) But action is better. #auspol https://www.amazon.com.au/Shrinking-Nation-Graeme-Turner/dp/0702266