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Author:   Sarah Murray ,  Lachlan Umbers
Publisher:   Anthem Press
Imprint:   Anthem Press
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.486kg
ISBN:  

9781839993534

ISBN 10:   1839993537
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   13 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction - Lachlan Umbers and Sarah Murray; Chapter 2 Citizen Guardians? Civic Engagement and Constitutional Conventions - Nicholas Barry, Narelle Miragliotta, Sarah Murray and Zim Nwokora; Chapter 3 Compulsory Voting in an Era of Democratic Disengagement - Jill Sheppard; Chapter 4 Early Voting and the Democratic Ideal - Lachlan Umbers; Chapter 5 Merely Advisory or Effectively Binding? The Status of Plebiscite Results in Australia - Paul Kildea; Chapter 6 Reflections on the Voice Referendum - Ryan Cox; Chapter 7 Understanding the Competing Sovereignty Claims of the Voice Referendum - Ron Levy and Justin McCaul; Chapter 8 Australian Civic Engagement: A Case Study of the 2023 Voice to Parliament Referendum - Andrea Carson, Phoebe Hayman and Justin Phillips; Chapter 9 The Unstable Foundations of the Implied Freedom of Political Communication - Murray Wesson; Chapter 10 Increasing Third Sector Governance Expectations as a Barrier to Civic Engagement in Australia - Ian Murray and Sarah Murray; Chapter 11 Civic Engagement Among the Australian African Diaspora: National and Transnational Activity - Farida Fozdar, Sarah Prout Quicke, Nothando Ngwenya, Chika Anyanwu, Dominic Dagbanja, David Mickler, Janet Dzator, Karen Farquarson, Alan Gamlen and Kiros Hiruy; Chapter 12 Australian Democracy and the Climate Crisis - Joo-Cheong Tham

Reviews

‘In the current global democratic winter, Australia is an outlier: its democratic system is comparatively robust. Yet the system is also in flux. This volume examines the pressing challenges to Australian de-mocracy and proposes considered solutions to steady and enhance it. The result is a timely, intriguing and important study.’ — Paul Strangio, Emeritus Professor in Politics, School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia ‘As we are forced to watch the backsliding of democracies around the world in real time, it is more important than ever to better understand our own. Murray and Umbers’s edited collection traces the history of civic engagement in Australian democracy and forecasts, in the wake of the marriage equal-ity plebiscite, Voice Referendum and the climate crisis, what the future may hold.’ — Dr. Blair Williams, Lecturer in Australian Politics at Monash University

Author Information

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 centres. 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.

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