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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Peter Lewis

Many Australians look at the world and see it heading the wrong way. Is democracy no longer the faction of choice?

Anthony Albanese
Anthony Albanese has arrived in Bali for the G20 summit, where ‘the politics of climate transition will butt up against ongoing geopolitical fissures’, Peter Lewis writes. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The world may be breathing a sigh of relief after the forecast “red wave” of proto-fascism failed to breach the United States’ severely compromised democratic levees.

But the failure of election-denying Trump enablers does not mean the tempest has passed; around the globe, populists are harnessing divisive technologies to turn people against the very institutions that were designed to give them a voice.

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