What kind of stability?

The quest for "stability" and a "workable parliamentary majority" now seems to take precedence over the urgent need for reform and change.

Looking at what the four Independents and the new Greens MP want has actually more to do with change rather than stability.

Furthermore, we should realise that the fiasco of the two-party tyranny is caused by Australia's electoral system: preferential voting and compulsory voting.

For Independents and a Green to achieve this amazing entry to the House of Representatives has been, for a very long time, exceptionally difficult.

Now that it has happened, let's start talking about how the two-party tyranny can be dismantled.

To have more of the same next time, we need to avoid the kind of stability that would reproduce this situation.

Email, 23 Aug 2010 Klaas Woldring, Pearl Beach