link to website

This brief article about public participation comes to the conclusion that “it may just be that participation is peripheral to the way most people lead their lives. They/we are mostly concerned with relationships - with friends, family, workmates, interest groups and so on. Public officials, politicans and their facilitator helpers are at the edge of vision, unless there is a big threat or opportunity….. new airport planned, neighbourhood renewal proposed, school threatened with closure. Then we get interested.”