Julie Bishop: voters risk being 'duped' by populist political leaders

Former foreign affairs minister says populism’s resurgence ‘coinciding with a crisis of confidence in democracy’

Political leaders need to be challenged about whether they are exploiting community unease and promising false “populist” solutions to complex problems, according to the former foreign affairs minister, now high-profile backbencher, Julie Bishop.

Bishop will use a keynote speech to a security conference in Canberra on Wednesday morning to warn that populism is on the rise around the world, and that the resurgence is “coinciding with a crisis of confidence in democracy”.

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