I did the rounds of the usual American news agencies to see what they were saying about our election but aside from saying it was a landslide, there was not much in their writing that I thought captured how we on our side felt had just taken place.

Diplomad 2.0 has the kind of writing on Abbott and the Liberal win that you never see anywhere. It starts from the premise that Labor for the past six years has been a hopeless government. Because unless you start from such a premise, what has just happened before your very eyes makes little sense. Here’s a taste but I, of course, encourage you to read it all:

A big John Howard fan, I admired his blunt speaking, profound patriotism, and willingness to continue the long Aussie tradition of stepping up to defend the West. His rise to power gave me hope that we could avoid four years of Al Gore after eight years of Clinton. Australia, again, proved the land of tomorrow, and we got George W. Bush. I was appalled when Howard’s long run as PM ended and we saw Labor’s Kevin Rudd incumber the office of PM. I saw Rudd more as a European phony than the down-to-earth and very clear-eyed Australians with whom I worked. His kow-towing to the warmist crowd with his signing of Kyoto, and his “apology” for Australia being a great country turned me off completely. I hoped and prayed that Rudd, and his even more bizarre intra-Labor rival, weird Welshwoman Julia Gillard, would not prove a glimpse of what was in store for the USA. This time, Alas! Australia, again, predicted what was to come. We got an inept anti-American Chicago mountebank by the name of Barrack Hussein Obama, who made the shambolic (Note: A great British word!) Rudd-Gilliard-Rudd administration seem like a Swiss railroad in comparison.

And while I’m at it, this was the post from Mark Steyn at National Review he put up on the night.

We get used to not finding our perspectives reflected in the media. And it is not a process of myth making in the normal sense of it’s not being a true reflection of whoever is writing the story. It is an absolutely true reflection. It is just that the people who write the stories do not understand why 53% of the country wanted to see Labor lose. They just don’t get it. They can see that it happened but they can’t explain why, other than as a xenophobic reaction to refugees and the divisions caused by Rudd. That’s why it’s good to read the occasional outside observer who has a take that is similar to our own, just so we can remember the difference when we see it.