Democracy isn't "under threat", it's just not working as expected.
It's not truly representative and is biassed toward those with influence at the expense of the majority. It's also as prone to media manipulation and distortion as typical autocracies.

A recent example of the imbalance is the election of our Deputy PM.
From within a room of 21 people, 11 (effectively just one) made that decision.

However those 21 people represent a total of around 4.1% of the primary voters in the whole country and the amount of political power and influence they wield far exceeds their democratic support.

Likewise, in this country any parliamentary representative who is elected with under 50% of the primary vote but elected via preferences actually has more people voting against them than for them so perhaps a clearer definition of "Democracy" should be made.

Lego,
Isn't "Jobkeeper" (as well as all social service payments) nothing but a socialist handout?

It seems to me every time Capitalism breaks down it's up to the taxpayer to bail them out with socialist handouts and the sell-off of public assets just a system of privatising the profits and socialising the losses?

As for the USA it's funny how they insist that gun ownership is a fundamental democratic right but the right to vote isn't.

Dear Lego,

Me thinks that your loathing of the "...university activist class..." has blinded you to some facts.

Of all the undermining of democratic principals I mentioned earlier, how many of them have been carried out by left wing socialist loonies? Oh, dear, they were all enacted by our current right-wing cohort ensconced in Canberra. According to you though, they must have done so acting on the instructions of their public sector/academic class masters.

What rubbish!

It is not some left wing plot that is undermining democracy, but rather the:

actual behavior of politicians -

which is eroding trust in government and by extension democracy. Why else would the majority of the population believe and trust a used car salesman or real estate agent rather than a politician?

As for your claim that "...no right wing journalist will ever be hired by the ABC..." don't tell that to Amanda Vanstone or David Speers.

David Speers is Right Wing ?

OK.

If you say so .