Tasmania is faced with the strangest of choices: a government of our worst —or a government of our best.
Our worst? The Liberal and Labor parties who have brought our island to its knees.
Our best? Parliamentarians like Ruth Forrest, Meg Webb, Mike Gaffney, Kristie Johnson, Craig Garland, Peter George, Rosalie Woodruff, Vica Bayley, Bridget Archer and Ella Haddad joining in a cross party coalition.
That would be a government Tasmanians might believe in. That they might trust. That would be capable of leading us out of the mess we find ourselves in.
But Liberal and Labor insist government must be by them on their terms only. Yet it is neither law nor rule in the Westminster tradition of parliamentary democracy that one minority group of elected members can insist that all others must agree with their policies simply because they say so.