Tony Ryan is a demographer, political researcher and environmentalist; who also organises the Australian Independent's Alliance, the Australian Small Business Forum and the Tariff Restoration Bloc; and is editor of the micro tabloid the Australian Independent. His careers have included agriculture, education, community welfare, Aboriginal community development, social research, rural development, tourism and real estate. Originally a Territorian, he has travelled extensively in his research into historical consensus democracy; now globally replaced by representationalism.
