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Australia’s Hollow Politics and Where It Could Lead Us
Our Very Own Brexit
About the author
Sam Roggeveen
Sam Roggeveen is Program Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. He is the author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace (Opens in new window), published by La Trobe University Press in 2023.
Could Australia have a Brexit moment?
There is a rarely spoken truth at the heart of Australian politics: it is dominated by two parties that voters no longer care about.
Around the democratic West, the public is drifting away from major parties, and politics is becoming hollow. In Europe, populists have been the beneficiaries. In Britain, the result was Brexit.
Australian politics is hollow too. One of our declining parties could, in desperation, exploit an issue that ties Australia to Asia and which will determine our future security: immigration.
Our Very Own Brexit: Australia’s Hollow Politics and Where It Could Lead Us is available to purchase from all good bookstores ($12.99) and online. An e-book version is also available.

Contents
Foreword by George Megalogenis............xi
Introduction...............................................1
1. Britain, Europe and the hollowing
out of democratic politics.......................13
2. Hollowing out in Australia...................31
3. An Australian Brexit.............................53
4. Hollow and helpless in Asia................69
Conclusion: Decay without renewal.....103
Endnotes..................................................111
Acknowledgements................................127
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