Given that the 2 most powerful parties polled in each electorate gain the preferences it could be many more Green candidates up against LNP candidates and that might result in more LNP seats being gained.

Option 1 and 2 are rife with problems because all of a sudden 3-5 people control how the country is run. Also, on top of that, neither party that forms the minority government has a mandate to do anything, except govern until the next election in the hopes of a majority. So I concur that whoever gets the opportunity to take government now, will try and get those quick runs on the board then push for an election ASAP.

That is the reason why both sides are scrambling to obtain that box seat. A minority government might look horrible from first glance, but it does at least give you the incumbent chance of being returned, with a majority, if you can manage to make a handful of good decisions early on.

The 3rd option, of going back to the polls, on the surface seems like a huge waste of time and money. Are you going to change your vote? I won’t. But what we have to consider is that many now who vote in that significant Green-base could either expand their supporter base (thereby creating more Greens, a stronger vote, a significantly weaker ALP and a majority ALP government) OR those voting Green could switch directly to ALP voting (the ones who choose to preference ALP) which would in turn create a stronger ALP and get them across the line in many marginal seats which would then give them the majority to govern.

Whichever way we look at it, we are going to be back at the polls soon. Whether thats a few weeks, a few months, or a year down the track we won’t know for a couple of weeks yet.

That said I thought that Australia was already preparing to become the dumping ground. Therefore we can take care our own waste.

I don’t dispute your figures – I am actually a big fan of nuclear energy. However, in Europe and USA, the biggest problem is not the nuclear tech itself, but where to store nuclear waste.