Congrats Australia, you have stopped the boats.

[CountArach]

gillard's acts driving people away from supporting labor (she was a bit of a rad fem basically).

I know many rad fems. She was not a rad fem. Well personally she may feel that she is but at no point since coming into Government did she act like one, apart from the discussion of Abbott's mysogyny. Not only that but polls showed a favourable reaction to that speech and general agreement with it (IIRC). So claiming that Gillard's 'feminism' of whatever variety made people oppose here is far from the truth.

I saw this result coming long ago so I was prepared for it and expected it. It disappoints me that people elected the Liberal government when their policy platform was full of contradictions (cut expenses in the budget but raise military spending), was self-defeating (cut foreign aid, which will create more asylum seekers...), as well as being based primarily on rhetoric (stop the boats) but that's what was always going to happen. I have very little faith in the Australian public and this just confirms that.