Quote Originally Posted by termite View Post
Hung Parliament - and no that doesn't mean the politicians all have donkey dicks!

Like good citisens we all went out and voted in the Federal election on Saturday and thanks largely to the lack of a decent candidate from any party we have ended up with a hung parliament for the first time since WW2.

We had a choice of a BloodNut, a WingNut and a GumNut. It now looks possible that the BloodNut will form a coalition with the GumNut and a few independents which will mean pandering to the every whim of the independent members just to be able to form government.
Is quite funny from a British perspective (esp. with an interest in Aussie politics). Over here we've just had a long-term, unpopular Labour government disposed off - although it ended up in a Hung Parliament here and the first post-war Coalition.

Then a short-term Labor government has its deputy stab her unpopular leader in the back. A lot of people here were saying "if only they'd done that to Brown". Then 2 months later all the popularity of Gillard has disappeared.

Appears that wasn't the recipe to success afterall.

Abbott seems from here to be as surprised as everyone else that the Liberals managed to do so well. First time post-war a first-term Aussie government has not been re-elected I believe?

The one thing that still seems weird to me (having left Australia in 2000) is seeing the election results with nothing whatsoever for the Democrats. They really imploded didn't they? Then again that parties most popular selling point always seemed to be that Natasha Stott Despoja was attractive.