Chris Wallace is a professor of political history at the University of Canberra and author of the new book "Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers."
It has been a basic rule of politics since the Roman Empire that bread and circuses make for happy citizens. But if bread supplies run short, people can get restive. Circuses sometimes have to be sacrificed until basic needs are covered.
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