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As far as I know, it's because your Labour party made a fool of itself by swapping its leaders around too much and running a terrible campaign. Also, a lot of Australians have a lot of problems with the issue of illegal immigration, hence the effective statement "stop the boats".

Anything more substantial than that, I do not know. But this was simply me trying to rile all you Australians into talking about the election. Everything I typed here is just verbatim from what I saw in reddit.com/r/reddit
Oh god, don't try to take anything from reddit seriously. r/Australia is an echo chamber of young left wingers and the world news post is filled with them too. They've had a reaction similar to what your republicans had last year.

"Can't wait to legitimately hate this country and everything it stands for once Tony Abbott gets in."

"The tallies haven't come in and I'm already depressed. How can this great country have come to this. Murdoch running the media and G. W. Bush in power. I'm going to get drunk."

To be fair Murdouch does own a lot of the media, but it wasn't the reason why labor were kicked out. The backstabbing of the leaders, the immigration policy (on both sides), gillard's acts driving people away from supporting labor (she was a bit of a rad fem basically). Carbon tax was an issue too.

I'm very surprised at how close Katter came to losing his seat. Dunno what I would've done without ol'Faithful being there.