Abstract:
Hung parliaments aren’t necessarily signs of crisis. Sometimes they are opportunities to explore new possibilities. While they always entail difficulties, they can quite validly be viewed positively. Arguably this was the case with the first Bracks government in Victoria, which displaced the degraded and barely concealed thuggery that had come to typify the Kennett years. But it is not a good idea to cling to that example in evaluating Canberra 2010.
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