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So what happens now that Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has resigned? Who better to ask than ABC Election Analyst Antony Green. He says the ball is in the court of the Electoral Commission, who will now conduct a re-count with Ludlam excluded, appointing another candidate to fill the casual vacancy. He says the only way Scott Ludlam could get back into Parliament is if after the re-count, the elected person doesn't want the seat and resigns, and if in the meantime Senator Ludlam has sorted out his

For Gillon McLachlan, coming to the realisation on Thursday that he would be forced to terminate not one but two senior executives as a result of in-house affairs, was comparable to the various stages of grief. Over the past six days there has been disbelief, denial, anger, acceptance and sadness. As recently as Friday morning, McLachlan was close to tears when he told staff that his football lieutenant and close friend Simon Lethlean was finished, along with the recently-app

Who knows for sure why anything goes viral on the internet. There's a bright future for the person who can figure that out. Surely, though, the reason ABC political editor Chris Uhlmann's assessment of Donald Trump's performance at the G20 meeting took off was that it showed Americans from the perspective of an informed outsider just how far and fast the reputation of not just the US Presidency but of the US itself is falling under Trum