Uncivil wars

I feel certain that Proportional Representation will:

• Vastly improve our democratic representation. (Until this year, the Greens had 10% of votes, but less than 1% of the Lower House seats; and under normal circumstances it was almost impossible for high quality independents to win.  Not to mention the obscene power of the Nationals.)
• Enhance the quality and diversity of MPs.  (Dreams of more teal-like MPs!)
• Banish the winner-takes-all mentality, the fount of so many ills afflicting our parliamentary democracy.
• Herald in a new era: negotiated legislation, in the national interest; no more gladiatorial spectacles on the floor of the Parliament; no more pork-barrelling - community and nation-building projects to be collaboratively agreed upon, and not announced during election campaigns in a bribe-bidding war in a 2PP electoral system.

Absence of contempt no doubt will enhance our democratic ambience, but a new structural underpinning, Proportional Representation, will have a much higher chance of getting rid of the damp and the salt that have crept through the foundations of our democratic institutions:  the grey corruption; the continual skirmishes around social issues big and small; and the winner-takes-all mentality that celebrates individual accumulation of money above the common pursuit of the wellbeing of all.