Tuesday, August 24, 2010  Election 2010 (2)  Australia now has
two People's Choices arguing that they are the clear new winners
and should govern for the next three years. The Liberal/National
Party argues that they received the largest primary vote (even
though Australia doesn't operate under a first past the post
system). The Australian Labor Party argues that it got the
largest overall vote after preferences were distributed (even
though there was a heavy swing away from them). While there was
over a 5% swing away from the ALP, only 1.8% went the L/NP way,
and 3.7% went to the Greens (ie a leftwing party) so it could
also be argued that the Australian people wanted a more socially
progressive government.  EoR thinks the obvious solution is for
the L/NP and the ALP to form a coalition. They'd control around
143 seats in the Parliament. Their policies, politicians and
poll-driven reactiveness are the same. They're both right-of-
centre parties.  At least there was one pleasing result: the
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