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This is what late-stage institutional decay looks like. Not a dramatic collapse, but a slow, grinding loss of competence and legitimacy – where the government’s primary function shifts from solving problems to perpetuating itself.
Bureaucracies do not abandon governing philosophies: they preserve them. Winning the policy war is not enough. Lasting reform requires restructuring who decides – not simply rewriting what is declared.
In Australia, youth experiencing high psychological distress dropped from 25 per cent in 2023 to 19 per cent in 2025, before any social media ban. Do not to let politicians retroactively take credit for youth outcome improvements already underway before their clumsy regulation efforts began.
