Australian voters fail to give incumbent PM outright majority in embarrassing outcome

‘A dramatic parliamentary election has failed to produce a clear winner in Australia, raising the prospect of prolonged political and economic instability.
The result is a blow to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who had dissolved both houses of the parliament and called for snap elections confident that his ruling coalition would clinch an outright win.
That prospect proved too ambitious, as people gave the ruling coalition even fewer votes than its arch-rival Labor Party in an embarrassment for Turnbull.’
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