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Wednesday, 25 May 2022 13:03

CITIZENS' ASSEMBLY: CHANNELING PUBLIC WISDOM FOR DIVISIVE TOPICS

Amidst growing political apathy among Malaysians (low turnouts, poor participation for PACAs) and inability of our Parliament to tackle some basic issues, would it be a good time to explore an alternative form of democracy?

Tindak Malaysia would like to rekindle and older discussion we did last year - Citizen Assembly. Can the public be the decision makers outside the standard realm of ballot box?

We have brought a well qualified speaker from Sortition Foundation (a group that advocates deliberative democracy) - Dr Sonia Randhawa.

Dr Sonia Randhawa - Dr Sonia Randhawa is working with the Sortition Foundation to establish its Australian branch. She now spends her time talking with local groups, running mock (or real!) Citizens' Assemblies and integrating randomised deliberative democracy into organisations or businesses. Previously she has worked on media democratisation, freedom of information and media freedom in her birth country, Malaysia

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