can socialism be avoided in australia?

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    To me this snippet of news is shocking and shows why Australia, like Greece, Italy and so many other basket case economies cannot escape socialism:


    Even bigger ideas of Western progress are not revered as they once were. According to the latest Lowy Institute survey, only 42 per cent of Australians aged 18 to 29 years believe that “democracy is preferable to any other kind of government’’. And, depressingly, that’s down from 48 per cent last year.
 
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