I am thinking of Ghandi and things i have read about him with a new and respectful perspective now. i understand the spirit of independence, self reliance and community solidarity was what he was advancing with his decentralised organic farming communities and ashrams. Site on web UPMART by Malcolm McClure claiming to have developed tools and to be successfully enacting direct democracy. Has anyone heard of him, movement? Is it possable for the people to organise there own legally binding referendum on an issue like amalgamation. A group in Noosa Qld called HER (honourable electors referendum) is setting out to do exactly that.