Wayne Goss
On Friday my daughter turned 2. By the end of the month, she may have had more Prime Ministers in her life than birthdays.
That said, the result on Saturday night was a victory for the people. As much as the two major parties don’t like not knowing if they get the keys to Treasury, this is a great outcome for all Australians.
Throughout Australia, at the state level, we’ve been through this a few times more recently than the last time this happened federally. In Queensland – my most direct experience with hung parliaments – it started in 1995.
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