on the Future of Labor and Gillard

The Labor Party is ailing. The left wants it to return to its roots, and put community first. It knows this won't happen under Gillard, but can't think who, from the left, could replace her. The right wants to ignore the Greens, and maintain power at any cost. Both sides doubt the Gillard could win the next election.The fact is that under Gillard, the Labor party has moved more to the right, disaffecting much of the electorate, and ensuring an increased vote for the Greens. In the last elections, they gained 1.6 million votes. I predict that in the next elections, they will top 2 million votes. The question is who will get their preferences?  On an open ticket, about 10% will give preferences to the Liberals. If Gillard remains PM, this is likely to increase, especially if Abbott keeps his mouth shut and the press keeps vilifying Gillard and the Greens.
Under present conditions, Liberals would win with a comfortable margin.  The electorate is in a hard place. They dislike Gillard, they hate Abbott, and the majority still distrust the Greens.  This is not democracy, this is a sham.
It's also crying shame. The Westminster system our country adopted is well past its use-by date. You had one party of the wealthy, educated aristocracy, pitted against the down trodden working class unionists. Each wanting to gain power and further its cause.That what we are left with. We need to evolve from that. We need adversorial party based government like we need a hole in the head. What  we need is one government of people from all walks of life coming together for the public good, to enact far reaching plans to enrich this land and its peoples.  There is only one way this will work, through consensus. Primary school children, along with their ethics class, should be taught about how to reach consensus, and the difference between consensus and compromise.  In the future they will be the government fodder which will steer this nation. We might have to muddle on with what we have until then.
China has one government of party officials who debate issues and reach an agreement, fitting in with its communist ideal, and its market economy. I wouldn't swap communism for democracy, but do we really have democracy in its pure sense?  How much better is one government, than a rabble that our parliament has become.  We have yet to find out. Consensus has to be learnt, and used in every day life. Our children can learn that lesson well. In their ethics class they will learn another lesson about compassion. That will be easy for them to grasp, and they will create a great society.