FROM TIM BLAIR, an Australian election roundup. Also here. And Jim Bennett emails: “BTW, remember that Kevin Rudd’s 2007 victory in Australia was taken to presage a general swing to the left in the English-speaking world, and forecast a Dem victory in the US for 08? Will we hear the same sort of predictive arguments from today’s election, in which the Left defected to the Greens and the right was energized? Not from the same people, I think.”

UPDATE: Thoughts from Michael Barone.