David McKnight is Associate Professor in the Arts Faculty at the University of New South Wales and an expert on Australian political history.  David is author of Beyond and Right and Left:  New Politics and the Culture Wars. His writings can be found at beyondrightandleft.com.au

Click here to read a paper David presented at the CrunchTime: Australia's Policy Future conference which was co-hosted by Catalyst on 22nd & 23rd April 2009.