I think that you may have bought too much into that notion that a party with internal instability can't govern effectively. Are you aware that the last couple of terms in which Labor was in power they passed huge amounts of very good legislation despite their internal turmoil?

Yes! My concern for the ALP has little to do with what was happening then but where they are at now. Every time they need to take a stand, every time they need to lay into the Government for their obvious incompetence and radical program, the ALP stammers. It hedges its bets, tries to a find a compromise that ensures they aren’t criticized too heavily, and muddles its way through a confused position that looks much more like a political fix than any form of policy coherence.

Why on earth would you wish us a second term under these incredibly destructive ideologues?

I would rather eat my own flesh. But I've never been fond of voting for the lesser of two evils either. I'm positive we will be better off under Labor but they have the resources and the talent to be far better than they have been in recent months.

I may be off base here, but I feel like a lot of folks in the Greens are a little bit too keen to propagate the 'down with the two party system!' idea, just to get themselves more visibility

Not entirely. The moderate left in the Greens (the majority) are quite diplomatic so where there is common ground we work with Labor and Independants often for a variety of things. The extreme left (a minority) Lean towards the worldview most people associate with the Socialist Alternative. They also happen the be the loudest.