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Matt Howard

The Ambulance Chaser by Richard Beasley & The Naked Husband by Mark D'Arbanville

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November 2004, no. 266

Despite predictions that globalisation would homogenise cultures, ethnicity continues to split states asunder. Democratic theorists fear that consensus, equality and social capital are retreating before competition, materialism and resentment. The 2004 federal election campaign became a festival of individualism as alternative governments courted voters not with visions of a richer community but with promises of greater disposable household income after health and education costs.

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