Yeah.

I would think probably all of that plays in.

As I say, I'm speculating with all my experience of having been in politics and had a lot of conversations with a lot of people.

My observation is that there has been a presentation of what feminism means or what it means to have different faces in the workplace, female faces, faces of people who don't have an Anglo-Saxon background.

There's been a presentation of that as if it means that there's no room for people who fit what we used to think of as the norm of being Australian, the male white worker.

Now, that's getting to be a long time ago, of course, that that was the dominant way of talking.

But that presentation of somehow that diversity means that there's no room for you or you need to be quiet.

people moderate in many ways as they get older and how much of that is a generational shift like this idea particularly yeah that you can't speak to people you can't be friends with people who don't agree with you on politics that just seems crazy to me and I mean what do you make of that do you think is a generational shift or is it just young people being you know a bit black and white in their thinking well the data doesn't tell us the answer to that question obviously I

Yeah.

I would think probably all of that plays in.

As I say, I'm speculating with all my experience of having been in politics and had a lot of conversations with a lot of people.

My observation is that there has been a presentation of what feminism means or what it means to have different faces in the workplace, female faces, faces of people who don't have an Anglo-Saxon background.

There's been a presentation of that as if it means that there's no room for people who fit what we used to think of as the norm of being Australian, the male white worker.

Now, that's getting to be a long time ago, of course, that that was the dominant way of talking.

But that presentation of somehow that diversity means that there's no room for you or you need to be quiet.

people moderate in many ways as they get older and how much of that is a generational shift like this idea particularly yeah that you can't speak to people you can't be friends with people who don't agree with you on politics that just seems crazy to me and I mean what do you make of that do you think is a generational shift or is it just young people being you know a bit black and white in their thinking well the data doesn't tell us the answer to that question obviously I

On the campus of the University of Adelaide, at Elder Hall on Kaurna Country, she asks whether public policy failures are risking our democracy.

Thank you.

I have not been nervous before speaking for a very long time, and yet tonight I find myself, despite having almost uniquely written words in front of me, I am nonetheless quite nervous about how you feel about what I'm going to say.

Hugh Stratton gave so much to so many in such a range of fields that it is easy to think of him primarily as a champion of social change or a shaper of cities or an early environmentalist or a wise leader of housing policy.

He was all of those and more.

But he was first a historian who understood that we must examine the consequences of past decisions if we are to know where to go next.

He was desperately interested in testing whether how things are is how they must or should be.

Susan is now head of the McKinnon Institute for Political Leadership and she's asking if public policy failures are risking our democracy, particularly when it comes to education.