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As this column was being written, it became clear that Australia’s center-left Labor Party, under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, had won an even more decisive victory “in a remarkable turnaround driven partly by anger over President Donald Trump’s disruptive trade war,” to quote the Washington Post.

Asked if it was feasible that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage could be the next prime minister, she said "anything is feasible", noting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had won re-election this week after trailing in the polls.

In his first public appearance after Labor's emphatic win, prime minister Anthony Albanese told media outside a Sydney cafe on Sunday that "the Australian people voted for unity rather than division".

"It's not our night," Australia's opposition leader Peter Dutton told a roomful of supporters in Brisbane after his rival, Anthony Albanese, was re-elected as prime minister.

It was indeed a bruising night for Dutton, a 54-year-old political veteran who also lost his parliamentary seat of 24 years to a candidate from Albanese's Labor Party.