Fewer than half of young Australians believe democracy is always preferable to other forms of government, as trust in institutions wanes, new research has found.

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    1 day ago

    Useless journalist. At least link the fucking report. Or I guess don’t because people might read it and make their own opinions.

    https://polis.cass.anu.edu.au/research/publications/social-cohesion-and-support-democracy-australia-assessing-recent-polling-data

    It’s here and no surprise the context matters.

    indicate their agreement or disagreement with the statement: ‘Democracy is always and under all circumstances preferable to any other kind of government.’

    only 1.4 per cent of Australians strongly disagreed with the statement, and a further 5.5 per cent disagreed. Another 26.3 per cent neither agreed nor disagreed.

    Big surprise, strongly worded poll gets a lot of middle ground votes, but less than 10% outright disagree with the statement.