Yes the Liberal-Labor vote could have gone either way.

It could also be argued that many of the usual Liberal voters (rich, middle class) were dissatisfied with Liberal and opted for the sizable Green vote.

Looks like The Greens picked up a second seat in the lower house ?

Victoria will become the first AU state to have a green government.
Victoria was lost to labor when Bailue resigned, leaving behind a string of radical reforms that were never going to work. Sound familiar.

QLD votes next June and will most likely change govt; Newman is good as lost his seat now.

With a federal govt as we have at present will shift all states away from libs again.

With the Greens winning a second seat (of Prahan (it is being recounted) http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/greens-win-seat-of-prahran-in-victorian-parliament-20141209-123ne9.html in the Lower House - the Greens seem to have a strengthened Balance of Power position.

See http://www.vec.vic.gov.au/Results/State2014/Summary.html

Pete

Great spin on things Graham, "Labour should have beaten them by more"....bet you were not saying that before the vote.

Still you need to take comfort where you can. I heard another Lib die hard was blaming fixed terms.

i vote for bad government state and Fed that haven't lived up to the pre-election hype.

It's just a pity there isn't a fed election in a couple of weeks.

Hi Cobber

Re "It's just a pity there isn't a fed election in a couple of weeks."

If Shorten was voted in at Christmas I don't think his centrist Labor Party would change much. However Shorten would put a more humane spin on things.

Any Federal Government in power right now would suffer from the mining trough (rather than boom) which is nailing revenue flows from corporate tax and income tax.

Pete