Maroochydore's soggy yellow wall demolished!

It was a very wet election day on the Sunshine Coast. Old hands told me it hadn't been like this since the 'Kevin 07' election. This was taken as a good omen for the progressive forces.

At the Maroochydore State High school polling place, like elsewhere in the once Clive Palmer-held seat of Fairfax, there were swarms of UAP yellow people. They offered us unlimited freedom, and maybe graphene oxide detectors and microwave head shields to protect us from all those conspiracies. Lovely people all of them, but I suspect they've been well and truly seduced by good Trumpian Clive's wealth and seeming generosity.

There were red Labor people, and their local candidate and her daughters for a while. There were a couple of green Greens. Lots of blue LNP types including my new old friends, local member Ted and his wife. I think there was an 'Informed Medical Options' anti-vaxxer for a while, and mystery independent 'rebel' Sinim Australie was seen briefly. No Paul Hanson One Nation helpers though. They've all vanished this time, but several of her distraught supporters turned up, pleading for a how-to-vote-card. It was quite a show.

The omens proved correct (and the polls this time). Conservative forces were crushed, nationally anyway. Ted's back here in Fairfax, though his majority was halved. And the yellows achieved far less than had looked likely. Nationally, as we've been told a thousand times, it won't be easy under Albanese. But it probably won't be sleazy either. Progressive 'teal' independents and Greens look likely to share power with  Labor and Albo, its 'anyone-but-Scotty' Prime Minister. And the country will be a better place.