AS THE Occupy Sydney protesters gathered in the city's financial district last week, another group of agitators met nearby to mull over similar ideas. Both groups are intent on restoring power to ...

Report co-author and newDemocracy director Iain Walker said it wasn't good enough to say the system was broken if we didn't then try to fix it. "We're all complaining but no-one is trying anything ...

The Commonwealth-owned Moorebank Intermodal Company has employed research group newDemocracy to assemble a jury of 30 citizens from near the controversial truck terminal site. Trucks line up at ...

Iain Walker is Executive Director of The newDemocracy Foundation. Many people complain about how we conduct our democracy: NDF conducts real world practical trials of how we can do democracy ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. IS OUR adversarial system of politics really the best model of government for the 21st century? Would a system that encouraged ...

Executive Director of The newDemocracy Foundation, Iain Walker, reckons a citizen jury is more likely to make policy recommendations Australians can get behind than a politician with vested interests.

AS A Noosa community jury member, 19-year-old Zachary Thomas took his first step as a volunteer participant in Noosa Council's adopted newDemocracy system on Saturday.

POWER will be given back to the people in a radical plan to hand a $300 million council budget to a "jury".

A "CITIZENS' jury" will deliberate on Adelaide's future and deliver their verdict to the State Government.