...but no election winner has been called to form government.At the closing of the night, the two major parties are essentially equal. Labor has won 70 seats, the Liberal/National Coalition has won 71. Five seats are yet to be called, 76 are needed to form government. The remaining of won seats are 1 Green and 3 independents. The first indigenous Australian member was elected to parliament as a member of the Libs.
What to do?
In the upper house it seems to be the major parties, the Greens (substantially, might I add) and possibly a single Family First senator.
On the lighter side, I made the entire panel on the Channel 9 coverage of the election laugh when they read my twitter update on live national TV.
Ari, what did you say? I wish I had seen it.
ReplyDeleteI took a swipe at the Greens, as if we didn't expect that. It was probably the only time everyone laughed in the whole 6 or so hours.
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