Democracy 100: You can make a difference was crafted as an authentic and significant museum public and research program that brought multilateral leaders together to develop content for a Charter for Australian Democracy.

This Democracy 100 brief reports that Australians should rightly be proud of their hard won democratic traditions and freedoms and the achievement of stable government which has delivered social and economic wellbeing for its citizens. However, the findings herein should give all democrats pause for thought.

The author conducted this research as part of a fellowship at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). The resulting report, summarised in this paper, is expected to be published by USIP in summer 2018.

Public trust in government is declining in democracies around the world, particularly among young people. Democratic reform is needed to re-engage disaffected citizens.

Have Australian conservatives lost sight of the core features of their own philosophy?