Global Daily: The Golden Age of Hollywood

Australia’s ruling Labor Party was returned to government in emphatic fashion over the weekend, becoming the only first-term government in Australian history to actually increase its numbers in the House of Representatives at its first bid for re-election. The Australian result echoes what we saw a week earlier in Canada, where a centre-left party that had been chronically trailing in the polls just a few months ago suddenly surged to victory. In Australia, as in Canada, the leader of the main centre-right opposition party not only lost the election, he lost his own seat in the parliament.