The world’s most inscrutable man?
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I’m probably completely wrong about this, so please help me improve on the analysis.
1. Windsor, Oakeshott and Katter do not want another election. They mean to enjoy the leverage the election outcome has given them.
2. They have consistently invoked ‘stability’ as their main objective in deciding which side to support.
3. Stability means one side having at least 77 votes in the House of Representatives. A government with only 76 votes would be just a single by-election away from losing its majority, a state of affairs that most people would regard as too precarious.
4. Given that Labor now has the formal support of the the Greens member Adam Bandt, both sides currently have 73 votes.
5. Therefore, a stable arrangement requires that all four independents choose the same side. Read more »

The world’s most inscrutable man?