Party politicals

I have spent my last evening in Sydney watching the Australian election results come in and it is becoming a spookily familiar replay of our own political nightmare. There are two parties one of which is already a coalition between Liberal and the National Party. Then there are are a few minority parties who are already aligned with one or other of the main parties. A party needs 76 seats to have a clear mmajority. At present the Australian Labour party has 70 seats and the Coalition has 72. The commentators say they haven't a clue who will win as there are still a number of results to come in over the next few days but it looks as if the balance of power will be with the four independents from rural Australia. The city held to ransom by the outback where only a tiny proportion of the population remain. They say in Downunderland everything happens backwards.