Australia is at a “Machiavellian moment”. This is not a reference to broken promises on tax. It’s a much bigger deal.A Machiavellian moment speaks to a crisis of national confidence and the sense that our political order and institutions are not equal to today’s internal and external challenges. Coined by the historian J.G.A. Pocock, the term derives from Nicolo Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy and the Florentine’s diagnosis of a political community’s vulnerability to decay and decline.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
One Nation’s great disruption is Australia’s Machiavellian moment
We confront a crisis of national confidence and the sense that our political order and institutions are not equal to today’s internal and external challenges.
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