Taschi Talks – Episode 16: Crisis in Democracy

In this episode Taschi and Simon talk about the upcoming elections. Whilst there are many independents running this time to shake things up, there is also another proposed solution to our ‘democracy in crisis’ prepared and ready to go. This discussion covers ‘Deliberative Democracy’ also known as ‘Citizens Assemblies’. But is it really a better way of doing democracy? And is it even lawful under our constitution?

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