[naturalman1975]

Labor - 72 + 1 Green + Independent Andrew Wilkie + Independent Rob Oakeshott + Independent Tony Windsor for 76.

Conservative coalition - 73 + Independent Bob Katter for 74.

[Tzimisce]

Graft, corruption and cheating: coming soon to an election near you.

[UncleHambone]

Missed it by that much.

That’s a pretty unstable government though, isn’t it?

[iowamark]

It shows how independent the “independents” are, doesn’t it?

[fortheDeclaration]

It sounds like the conservatives could block most of the Labor agenda.

[Dragonspirit]

In world history, has the right wing candidate ever won such a type of situation?

Whenever an election is legitimately close, the left will steal it (find “mystery” ballots, multiple recounts, have judges play games, etc). Hell, they were almost able to steal Florida in 2000.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Follow her on Twitter, she might screw it all up on there.

[sunmars]

a year, i wouldnt even give it a couple of months before infighting begins, i actually think this works out well for Abbott because in a few months, this dog of a coalition will implode as Gillard is as crap as it comes and i bet you the australian people wont be happy when they see the high price paid to the independents.

[cmj328]

http://onion.com/b1w93A

[Gay State Conservative]

So now the Liberals will just have to “flip” a member or,better still,two members and voila! If they need a tutorial on how to do it the can just look up “Jim Jeffords” and “Arlen Spector”.

[Impy]

Suxxor.

Backround if you haven’t heard, Aussies had an election and Labor and the Liberal (true meaning of the word)/National coalition both fell just short of the 76 needed.

No majority government in Canada, The UK and now Aus.

It was not likely for this to happen in Australia because they have instant runoff voting and 2 dominant political forces in Labor and the Coalition.

The Greens got record support and won a single seat.

A shame, 2 seats away.