Re: I am Mad
@Dan1980 - have an upvote for a considered well argued post. I am interested to know if your moderate government down under is more to do with you having proportional representation than compulsory voting (in favour of compulsory voting by the way) . . . off to Google . . . OK, so you have a system of preferential voting, not as good as my favoured system of proportional representation but way better then first past the post.
I would argue your moderate governmment comes as much from the absence of hard FPTP as it does from complusory voting.