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And the fallout from the Australian Election yesterday, just keeps looking better... Australia's Trump wannabe Clive Palmer, who spent around $100,000,000 on annoyingly pervasive, but factually inaccurate advertising for his 'United Australia Party', has failed to secure any seats in the Parliament & probably none in the Senate either. Google him to find out why this is such a satisfying result...

Ditto for Pauline Hanson, who has been an illiterate, whingeing, racist presence in our politics since 1997. She looks likely to lose her Senate seat & like Clive, all of her 'One Nation' candidates for the Lower House failed to trouble the scorers in any way...

Just reflecting on those party names - 'One Nation' & 'United Australia'... Judging by their leaders, their rhetoric, their candidates & their supporters, it would only be 'One' nation, or a 'United' Australia if you're white, christian, primary school educated & love coal. For anyone else, it's not yours - go back to where you came from! Why do people with such divisive beliefs use such misleading names for their organisations - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea... definitely a democracy!!)... same for the People's Republic of China (for a select few of the people, not for most of them)... the old Deutsche Demokratische Republik (East Germany - neither democratic, nor a republic)... even Hitler called his charming bunch the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Socialist?!? I don't think so!!) And as for the Republican Party of the United States, well at least that's accurate if your idea of a republic is the same as Putin, Kim, Xi... All fine company for the likes of Clive & Pauline

The only 'down' side to the Liberal Party being put to the sword, is that one of the few left standing is Peter Dutton - the former police officer who has been Minister for Defence, Immigration, Home Affairs & Leader of the House... all jobs he has performed in exactly the way you'd expect a former cop to - with blinkered vision & a baseball bat. To him, everyone's a criminal, he just hasn't caught you yet. Unfortunately, it looks like he'll become leader of the Liberals simply because there's no one else of any significant stature or experience left in the Party after yesterday. Look for the Liberals to move away from the Centre-Right position they've tried to hold against their own factions & over to their more natural habitat of the hard right. I suppose the good thing about that is that it will keep the Centre-Left-oriented Labor Party in power for a few more elections yet!!