Not exactly needing to eat my words yet, but in truth the Federal Election result yesterday was a melange. The Government experienced a bigger swing than expected and the outcome remains uncertain, as I write.

My own dear seat of Macquarie has gloriously changed hands, the Liberal incumbent being displaced by the hardworking Susan Templeman from the ALP. This is, after all, only restoring a balance to what is essentially a centre-left voting community.

A serious downside to this vote was the election of one or even two members of the racist illiterates, One Nation. That Pauline Hanson will once again be giving of her incompetent self to the Australian Senate is remarkable. She has had many years to get around any issue you might name but has failed to do so and is undeserving of a place on even a school fete committee, let alone the national parliament.

Interesting times, they say.