Bazz,

I'm in SA where it is now 10.35pm. Watching Labor's surprise and disappointment. Once again, the polls and pundits were wrong.

So good to see that labor has been creamed. Only one person in 3 voted for them.

Shorten is now as dead as Hawke in the political business.

I think that they should open a condolence book for Shorten. Maybe they could put it next to Bob Hawke's...

OK ttbn, looks like something went wrong with the servers clock.

Surprising how wrong all the polls were for the last 6 months or so.
I suspect it is a part of a worldwide trend of rejection of the so called "progressives".
Obviously aggressive global warming and immigration political correctness
has played a part. It has also been responsible for new parties such
as Alternative for Deutschland, Marie le Pen's resurgence with her
party and the new parties in Holland, Belgium and Denmark.
The unexpected defeat of Hillory Clinton in the US elections was
due to the "Deplorables".
It does seem to be a recurring pattern.

Parties such as Labour will continue to be at a disadvantage if they
continue with more of the same.

Conservatism was boosted by the squanderings of the Left which only looks at society from that privileged viewpoint that is Academia. Real people with real needs have more pull eventually than unimportant idealistic dreams.