Australia’s next best hope may just be sitting in a simple church in the leafy streets of East Melbourne.

They are the 110 women and men of Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church and there is a very good chance they are on your side. I certainly feel like they are on my side.

Hon Secretary Marion Harper in the Melbourne Unitarian church in East Melbourne. Credit:Wayne Taylor

In the next few days, they will be bringing you the Report on the People’s Commission of Audit. It’s a way of fending off the appalling neoliberalism which appears to slither its way into nearly every single decision or policy-unravel this Federal Government is making. And that, of course, can be traced back to the appointment of a bloke from the Business Council of Australia to be head of the Federal Government’s Commission of Audit.

Here’s how the Unitarians did it.