Members of the public are often treated as irritants and voyeurs to political processes when the development and acquisition of public land is discussed, writes Mark Rolfe.
Once oppressed by big business, the Australian working class now suffers under the yoke of elite actors. The Liberal Party's class war rhetoric has turned the tables on the Left, argues Associate Professor David McKnight.
It would take only a single inspirational politician to change the media and political landscape, according to one of Australia's pre-eminent journalists, Kerry O'Brien, who delivered the flagship Wallace Wurth Memorial lecture.
