“What can be done about the excessive influence of vested interests (leaving aside the problem of defining when influence becomes excessive)?..... Maybe, but is that any more logical than, for example, banning (if that were legal) trade unions affiliating with Labor?
''Cures'' can be worse than the disease. The best checks are transparency and a strong, diverse, pluralistic mainstream media to which the widest range of voices has access in news and views.
