Gide, humans. Well, Australia has a new government and a new government that is both a

resounding victory for the Labour Party and the new Prime Minister Anthony Albanesey,

in the sense that it's a resounding defeat for the governing coalition run by the Liberal Party and Scott Morrison.

But also a non-resounding victory in the sense that the Labor Party only picked up about a 32%

share of the total primary vote in terms of the people who actually nominated the Labor Party

as their first choice.

With much of the rest of the anti-government vote going to independence and to the

Green Party, there was a campaign of independence in this election that's kind of unprecedented

in Australian history. A multi-billionaire named Simon Holmes a court had recruited female candidates who were passionate

about climate change, but otherwise fairly economically conservative and inoffensive to conservative

to run in marginal government-held seats and try to topple the most vulnerable government-held electorates,

most vulnerable members of Parliament. And they largely succeeded. These were all women.

They were running on three issues. The first was climate change. The second was the introduction

of a federal anti-corruption commission. In Australia, state governments

generally have anti-corruption commissions who can investigate the government and make sure that they're

basically watchdogs that make sure that some property developer isn't giving kickbacks or flying

MPs around on first-class visits internationally as a way to butter them up and approve the development,

something like that. But at a federal level, we don't have such a body. And the Prime Minister

had always held the position that this wasn't something that voters cared about and that it would

just be more bureaucracy and red tape and make it more difficult for the people's elected

representatives to do their job, see if they had to keep worrying about

persnickety bureaucrats looking over their shoulder. Well, that didn't fly. The third issue that

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