Thanks very much all, for the contributions on site layout and forums.

As I've said before, the site is in it's early stages and I am sure it will develop over the next three months or so. One thing to bear in mind is that thee prime content of the site is the blog section - where the regular contributors (on the subject of Australian democracy) can post their pieces, and other visitors to the site can contribute by way of commentary.

John Richardson sent me this link.

The mission of Watching America is to provide "news and views about the United States published in other countries.
It is not our purpose to find favorable or unfavorable news and commentary, but
to reflect as accurately as possible how others perceive the richest and most
powerful country in the world."

I was about to post this link anyway alongside some other stuff John sent me, but then wondered if "Watching Australia" might be an interesting project. I wonder how many Australians would be interested?

Would it be possible to have a section in the forum categories
'currently in the media' where we can point out to each other important
articles that other people may have missed?

I've just tried sending an email through and got an error message saying there were errors in my form

email me direct at [email protected] if need be.

As of 8th March the forums are active.