There has been a lot of fervent internal debate about the direction that Labor is heading in. Much of this has been focused on the inordinate power that union heavies wield. There's another battle that's ideologically related to this, but tends to get less attention. And that's the tendency of some Labor pollies to go further and further to the Left, into wacky Greens territory. 

Alannah MacTiernan is the best example of this trend in this state. Not so long ago she was blathering about the heat island effect in Perth, as if it were an issue worthy of concern to most voters. Now she's joining forces with Melbourne Greens pollie Richard di Natale to push for aprivate member's bill in favour of voluntary euthanasia. 

She is getting dangerously kooky! Makes you wonder why she just doesn't jump the Labor ship and join the Greens ...