Australia's three independent members of parliament have finally announced who they will support to form the new government. They chose the old Labour government that was in power before the election.
The independents said that they will support the new government to ensure that Australia has a stable government for he next three years. interestingly enough, a day later, the independents were already causing confusion by saying that they did not agree to certain terms which the government thought were already included in the deal. This is not going to be an easy 3-year term for Julia Gillard (the current Prime Minister).
Making things even worse, the Opposition is being nasty and obstructionist. While the independents were trying to figure out who to support in forming the new government, the Opposition was all for civil discourse in the House, and for better relationship between the Government and the Opposition. Now that they've lost in the battle with the Government over the independents, the gloves are off and verbal abuse of the current siting Government is in full force. Do they really think that will get them votes?
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