The resignation of former Australian Democrats leader, Senator Meg Lees, and the trenchant attack on current leader, Natasha Stott Despoja, by Senator Andrew Murray as he resigned from the Democrats’ front bench, raises immediate questions about the Democrats’ survival as a political force, and more fundamental questions about why the party is disintegrating.Looking back on it, the Australian Democrats were created in ambiguity. Don Chipp brought together fragments of two minor left-liberal part…
