As said a few posts ago I have been pretty much ignoring the election as it caused me a little too much despair. However, even I could not ignore the result. A hung parliament is very interesting. Not to mention I couldn’t have imagined a better result – the swing towards the Greens was large enough that their issues can no longer be ignored and both the major parties have to hear if nothing else that Australians are not that happy with either of them. I am still of course worried that the Liberals will be able to form with the independents and Tony Abbott will become prime minister but I think more than that I was worried about the political process itself and that the Australian people had become completely unconcerned with anything but themselves and their money and were happy to put up with this fear mongering etc etc. I am heartened that perhaps there are more Australians than I imagined that aren’t.