Pollie Crackers

Updated December 18 2017 - 2:15pm, first published 2:13pm

That noise you heard on Saturday evening was not just an electrical storm, it was the collective and gi-normous sigh of relief from the voters of Bennelong that their by-election was over and the hordes of unwanted and uninvited pollies would soon be gone. As everyone would now know, the by-election was won by the taciturn John Alexander, a former top Australian tennis player with unexpected British citizenship, over the considerably more charismatic Kristina Keneally who was born in the USA. John’s win salvages the Coalition government’s slim majority and, whatever your politics, it does help give a measure of stability to government in general. A win for Kristina would have resulted in a minority governement, a precarious Prime Minister, and an unsettled Australia. So the result was probably for the best for the country, pending a full general election.

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