Allow me to be the first to congratulate julie; for being our next prime minister, and holding her nerve and not making rash expenditure promises. 'well done'

In my view both Julia gillard and tony Abbott should be deemed to have acted unbecoming to be an advisor (Minister of State) to the Governor-General by their conduct to seek to wrestle from the Governor-General who shall form government.
As a CONSTITUTIONALIST I would wish all those posting comments first understood what the constitution really stands for.
See also my website http://www.schorel-hlavka.com and my blog at http://www.scribdd.com/InspectorRiakti (various correspondences to the Governor-General included) and you may just learn that who forms government got absolutely nothing to do with the INDPENDENTS, Greens, etc, because the Governor-General alone determines who shall be commissioned regardless of any majority in the House of Representatives.
E. Barton was commissioned to form a government on 26 December 1900, before the federation existed, and so no Parliament either. Learn what the constitution stands for and you all might just realise you are all conned.
Currently there is not a single Member of the House of Representatives as they are all Members of the House of Representatives designate!
Parliament is to vote on bills not to decide who forms government. That is the job of the Governor-General exercising prerogative powers!

Hoo kan understand constitution. There will be some long faced losers around at the moment.

AU don't have a constitution, that was made for englishmen. AU operates on rafferties rules.