Parties that don’t remember the past are doomed to repeat it
The article discusses the dangers of political parties neglecting historical lessons, which can lead to poor governance. It highlights the rise of populist movements in Australia that prioritize slogans over substantive policy. The author warns that democracies suffer when parties lack both historical understanding and the ability to govern effectively.
- ▪David French's column warns of the dangers of forgetting historical lessons.
- ▪Jenna Price's analysis shows how contemporary politics often relies on slogans instead of coherent policies.
- ▪The article emphasizes that health, taxation, and social cohesion are too important to be reduced to simplistic catchphrases.
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| Original publisher | The Sydney Morning Herald |
| Canonical URL | https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/parties-that-don-t-remember-the-past-are-doomed-to-repeat-it-20260603-p603g1.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:30:00 +1000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T08:31:59.426Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T08:31:59.426Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | apBqcFo9GNOt |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
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