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Laura Tingle

The perils of turning politics into relentless attack

The trashing of norms and rules without accountability might be the mark of Trump and Brexit, but it is playing out here as well.

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A question for students of bad bits of history has always been: how did people let such a thing happen? How was it that things were able to deteriorate in the way they did without the public expressing their alarm or objection?

It feels like we are getting a very real answer to that question in the way the world is moving at present.

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Laura Tingle is chief political correspondent for the ABC's 7.30 program. She is the staff-elected director of the ABC. Connect with Laura on Twitter.

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