Australian politics; ignore if not interested:
Greens beat
Democrats in Ryan byelection; the main result is still in doubt, though
Howard is already planning to spend more money buying swinging voters.
Don Chipp's dire warning about One Nation becoming the third party, and
holding the balance of power after the next election, may not come to pass.
The Democrats' leader waffles about it, not acknowledging that the Democrats'
complicity in passing the GST, and thus alienating their idealistic,
left-leaning support base, is probably behind their slump from 8% to 5% of the
vote.