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Taiwan is celebrated as a vibrant democracy in the shadow of a repressive China, but the complicated reality reveals an opportunity that is yet to be taken.

Previous council meltdowns in Invercargill and Tauranga show that calling an inquiry won't resolve Gore's mayoral problems - only goodwill and putting the community first

Scandal after scandal has left our democracy in extremely poor health

Only 5.34 per cent of eligible voters turned up to poll stations in Ashton for the by-election back in December 2022

As his country overtakes China as the world’s most populous, Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is escalating its attack on civil rights

Former Democrat Party leader Chuan Leekpai has urged voters to resist vote-buyers and political schemers responsible for running democracy into the ground.

Pat Cullen attacks health secretary’s attempt to prevent 48-hour action in England as ‘frightening for democracy’

Tens of thousands of Israelis packed Tel Aviv streets on Saturday for the 16th consecutive week to protest government judicial reforms they see as an attack on democracy.

When the Chinese embraced capitalism, the west predicted it would crumble. Then that the web would break it. We may be proved wrong again

“Nothing really bad happens in the actual pub, it happens on the estate itself outside.”

The writing was on the wall. But when Brazil's left-wing president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva visited China recently, he flamboyantly underscored economic and security ties between Latin America's largest democracy and the world's largest dictatorship. Significantly he took steps to decouple much of Brazil's vibrant commerce from using the…