"If you look at one of the key fault lines in Australia, it started in 2009 when Tony Abbott and the sceptics and the denialists and the internet trolls rolled Malcolm Turnbull, and ever since that day we have seen a breakdown in consensus," Shorten said at a media conference before his speech.
Speaking to reporters in Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, "Clearly, we've seen a breakdown in the institutions in Yemen".
But we've seen a breakdown of communities because these women who are themselves children are having babies -- one right after another -- and their bodies are shutting down.
And with the explosive increase in people who may be able to make ends meet today but have no long-term security, he told VICE that "we've seen a breakdown in the 20th-century income-distribution system, where profits and rental income are going to the plutocracy and elite.
In comparison with the United States, Germany has had a more substantial breakdown in output and has seen a much slower economic recovery, while the United States has faced a substantial rise in unemployment and a decline in employment.
"I have seen a more significant breakdown in consumer spending during the last few months," Mr. Hastings said.
The first split in tactics on leg one of the Volvo round the world race from Alicante to Cape Town and the first breakdown have seen an opening 48 hours that freed the eight 70-foot yachts from the Mediterranean, through the Straits of Gibraltar and out into the Atlantic.
But his vision has claimed victims: Shields has seen more breakdowns than an AA man.
But the government campaign has seen numerous breakdowns, none more deadly than last month's ambush in Dantewada.
"Historically, what we've seen is a breakdown in the manufacturing process," Dr. Kallen said.
