Abbott did win them a huge majority, but that was done on the back of untruths told before the election. The DD election was the correct number.
And now they have come back to the center ground of politics, so we could say that experiment failed.
Abbotts' budget was never going to fix anything, that was the budget of a crazed man who was pushing his own agenda that no one else knew about. Abbott had to go.

The media does not research their stories or provide much depth
and insight into events.

They are a big part of the wrong assessments made in Western countries.