Rooting Democracy: Growing the Society We Want

In Rooting Democracy Moira Rayner addresses this question with robust independence and wit, bringing to bear the hard-won practical wisdom she has acquired in her career as a lawyer and human rights activist.

At a time when Australians are profoundly disillusioned with politics and politicians, Rooting Democracy makes an impassioned plea for citizens and their governments to enter into a new kind of dialogue. Moira Rayner asks probing questions about the processes of Australian democracy. How do they work?

Why are they not working? What can we do to repair them, and to restore public faith in them?

The answers to these questions will determine what kind of world we leave to the citizens of tomorrow. Will they inherit a user-pays society based on competition, insecurity and fear, or a community whose democratic values are firmly rooted in mutual respect, co-operation and trust?