I have not gone into the issues raised in the campaign, but I agree that the coalition plans to "reform" employment law has been prominent in the campaign.
In other words, it seems as if the effectiveness of the Senate as the "House of Review" when neither main party has a controlling majority in the Senate saved the Coalition from "having" to actually implement the things it always said it wanted to do ... seizing the opportunity offered by holding the effective balance of power in the Senate made it seem the more ideological of the two parties, and made Labor's (long-standing) critique of the series of government IR reforms seem more middle of the road.
At that to the government's long-standing refusal to ratify the Kyoto agreement that it signed, and the general impression that the new Labor leader gives of being a "safe pair of hands", and it seems very much like a change of government is in the offing. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
