"Australia held a national election yesterday which all of the polls predicted for weeks would be won handily by the Labour Party.
The ruling Liberal Party (which is the conservative party in Australian politics because they still understand the historic meaning of liberalism) has been in office for over a decade, and had struggled as ruling parties often do when they grow stale in office.
In fact leadership fights within the Liberal Party had left it in chaos heading into the election campaign.
The pollsters and the media called it an “unlosable election” for Labour.
But in a stunning upset, the Liberal Party has won the election.
It sounds a lot like our 2016 election, no?
Apparently lots of voters told the pollsters one thing, but voted differently in the voting booth.
...The most interesting angle to this upset is that the Labour Party went all-in on climate change. Here’s how AFP covered it in the run-up to yesterday:
Australians flocked to the polls Saturday capping a bitterly fought election that may be the first anywhere decided by climate policy..."
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