Having taken on pretty much everyone in the Australian media and lost, it's no surprise that Kerry Stokes is getting some bad press today, writes Jock Given for ABC News.

Canadian political scientist Fred Fletcher discusses the meaning of "free" and "fair" in the context of elections, the evolution of the rules of the game - laws, regulations and conventions - and, in particular, some of the current dilemmas we face as a result of the emergence of what has been called the public relations...

This paper focuses on the actual experience of housing affordability, revealing how deeply the problem cuts into the financial and general wellbeing of renters.

The Community Consultation and the ‘Hard to Reach’ project is investigating how community consultation is currently practised by Victorian councils, especially in relation to multiple publics and groups that councils can find hard to reach. This case study looks at the City of Maribyrnong.

In local government, 'hard to reach' is a term sometimes used to describe those sections of the community that are difficult to involve in public participation. In this working paper Nicola Brackertz look at the usage of the term in the literature more generally, as many of the issues raised are also applicable to local...