If Australians knew the country was at a tipping point, they deliberately chose the tip. Becoming the poor white trash of Asia is now a distinct possibility.
By definition, democracies are never wrong. In a compulsory voting system, there can be no doubt that the very decisive election result was intentional. So determined was the electorate to continue the Labor course of the last three years, the opposition leader lost his seat.
No doubt there will be millions of words and hours of effort devoted by the Coalition to working out what went wrong. Many others will critique their performance, their lack of policy effort and their apparent lack of hunger, but what is obvious is that Australia has chosen the Labor way.
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Pru Goward is a former Liberal NSW government minister and sex
discrimination commissioner.
