Notable happenings that may have lead to this result:
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murdoch controlling the vast majority of print and broadcast media giving him the power to swing a sizeable portion of the population
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scare tactic campaigning by the LNP, boosted by the murdoch influence, causing people to believe falsehoods about the opposition parties
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misleading election material at polling booths. There were several instances of misleading material being handed around, including but not limited to:
In conclusion, even with preferential runoff voting corruption and propaganda can influence the election severely, especially considering that all but #3 are considered legal in terms of australian campaign law; Polling results, betting websites, and mathematical analysis all showed a clear labor victory to be expected, and following my own bayesian analysis the chances of the results coming out the way the have were less than 3% when aggregating all other analysis sources. Welcome to hellworld, fellow aussies.