http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/danielle-forsyth/ Born and mainly bred in Adelaide, Danielle has wanted to be a journalist since the age of 10 (even producing an entire 60-page newspaper for a primary school project), when she realised it was the a profession that combined and justified her bad habits of arguing and being a general busybody with her love for writing. Danielle started off at a country paper in SA’s Riverland before doing print and online work at a couple of metropolitan newsrooms. She loves politics, a good rumour, chocolate and list-making. Leave her alone with a pen and paper for more than five minutes and you’ll find her practicing her signature or writing out the alphabet in as many fonts as she can think of. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/democracy-is-dead-long-live-democracy/ Communism was a really good idea – stay with me here – and so is democracy. Unfortunately, neither ended up the way their idealist inventors imagined. If you lived through the ‘Reds under the bed’ era this might come as a shock, but at its core communism is really rather nice. It would be great to think that we could treat everyone as equal and be sharing, caring community. The fatal flaw, though, is communism didn’t really take human nature and greed into account, so ‘What’s mine is yours’ evolved into ‘What’s mine (and yours) is the dictator’s’. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Danielle Forsyth) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/democracy-is-dead-long-live-democracy/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/democracy-is-dead-long-live-democracy/#item5021 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:30:20 +0000 Danielle Forsyth | Author bios | The Punch