Remember what I said below about the Greens and independent parties? Well, this is now a historic election, as for the first time since 1943, Independents will decide which party controls Parliament (and thereby gets to select the new Prime Minister). It looks like potentially Tony Abbott (the guy who was third-place in selection for Leader of his own party...) may have a one-seat majority but don't rule Julia out. Nobody expected her to throw Kevin Rudd under the bus and she's very, very smart. The Greens are now much more powerful and while that's not business-friendly, something needs to be done about the disappearing Murray River and Julia has promised she would do something about it if she got Greens support. Good AP article provides a breakdown:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/22/AR2010082200428.html?hpid=moreheadlines
More later.
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