We're still not happy, John! If you're a louse, like me, it was ghastly to watch the results come in last night. I feared the bastards would win but watching them triumph beyond everyone's expectations is not easy.
What can we make of the result, I wonder? They have an increased majority in the House of Representatives and look likely to take control of the Senate too.
It's too easy and comforting (if falsely so) to fall back on the Labor Party line that a big lie won the victory for the Right. It's true that people in the marginal electorates are anxious about their huge mortgages and big debt. But the ALP needs to start winning hearts and minds, not just fighting too little and too late over voters' bank balances. Unless they do some paradigm shifting the Left here is always going to lose out until the economic cycle of boom and bust starts to do some busting. And who would want to inherit an economy going to hell in a handcart?
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