What an interesting result from a frustrated populace.

I really think it will take a return of Tony Abbott as leader to do this thing properly.

The Lib's should have been out on their ear. The electorate was all geared up to to a 'Newman' on Abbott's arse and they were stymied by the change of leadership. If Turnbull had been strong enough to stick to his original principles we might have been swayed to give the Lib's another chance. But corporate tax cuts, gay marriage plebiscite and dithering on GST reform cruelled his chances of a clean victory.

Let the far right of the party re-install Abbott, then when he is turfed by an electorate (who will never again believe a single word that came out of his lying mouth) their delusions will be exposed for what they are.

Dear Luciferase,

You wrote;

“I put NXT in this category. As kingmaker it can wring a sweet deal for SA at the expense of everyone else, whereas major parties must govern for all. I don't believe any of the NXT guff about its national interest at all, nor those who voted for it. The case exists for an NXT type party for each state, interested only in that state's interests, further splintering the vote and making Australia a looser federation without a national heart.”

I think you might find the Senate was set up to be a States House. Wouldn't South Australian NXT senators who be fulfilling their duty by lobbying for their state as hard as they can?

Goodness me - what's there to say
Saturday was not their day
The voters chose despite the noise
To let the pollies know their choice
Which goes to show you must be true
In what you say and what you do
Jobs and growth may sound quite good
But with no plan - it's just Kaput!

Here's a few more thoughts taken from the web:

"The vote is a disaster But giving it to the lunatics
is worse. If Malcolm Turnbull does win he needs to be
a leader - not a hostage. "

" It is hard to negotiate with zealots and
ideologues when all they want is
bigotry and racism legalised,
gay people persecuted and global warming hastened.
This has opened up a Pandora's box of resentment and
suspicion towards immigrants or suspected immigrants.
We can't make the promise of a vote pandering to the
interests of extremists.
It's weak and dangerous."

Foxy,
What a nasty lot of loses!

Yes, it is all one big mess really!
I can't imagine we would have another election any time soon, as imagine the cost of that election to our economy? Turnbull would be a fool to advocate that.

What worries me though, is that the ABC political analyst Antony Green thinks that there will either be a very narrow Coalition win, or a hung parliament...and he has been proved right in his predictions many times over the years.

Sadly the dinosaurs are still there, but we are so lucky that those fools are paralysed, failing to realise that they won the elections with a large absolute majority in both houses. Hopefully it stays this way so they are unable to govern over us.

In case of a re-election I will still put them last, but I'll be careful to put whichever half that is behind in the polls second-to-last in order to ensure the same result, again and again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMHnNF2rqpI