After spending a couple of depressing Saturday evenings over the past three years watching election results in which the Liberals/LNP gained substantial majorities, followed by months of pain as they set about shredding their respective governments' already feeble efforts towards equity and ecological responsibility, I finally get to talk about some good news! It's interesting that all the commentators, even the ABC's seasoned election analyst Anthony Green, were stunned at the size of the swing. Green's initial flummoxed response was that he didn't trust the numbers he was seeing. They turned out to be correct. After sweeping the pool in 2012, the LNP has clearly lost its majority. At last we have seen Annastacia Palaszczuk with a genuine, unforced smile . What's really interesting is that the opinion polls have been saying this for some time but no-one, including me, believed them. We all assumed that come the election the undecided voters would
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