Great News

[Aussie105]

29. Wife and I voted in the Australian Federal election yesterday.

You're welcome!

Vote counting is still ongoing, so the final number of bums on seats in the various houses of parliament aren't yet available, but it was within 3 hours of the last poll stations closing that it became obvious this was going to be a landslide defeat for the opposition party.

Whatever helped Trump's campaign to poison the minds of voters in America, the same approach seems to be the kiss of death elsewhere in the world.

There will be flow on effects.
Rejection of Trumpism is one thing, a moral victory.
China looking for increasing traffic with trading partners where tariffs don't apply, is quite another.