The Australian election has captured a trend that is unsettling politicians around the world. Voter volatility has never been as high as it is now, and it's being reflected in one election after the other.
In Australia, the election produced a dead heat result where voters rejected Prime Minister Julia Gillard but couldn't bring themselves to embrace Tony Abbott. The two major political parties are now in a race, talking to the independent, non-party aligned members of parliament in the hope of creating a minority government.
In Britain, conservative leader David Cameron was forced to enter a deal with the Liberal Democrats to create a minority government there.
And in America, where in one in five think that Obama is a Muslim, the volatility is running strong.
The Wall Street Journal attributes this unpredictable instability to the worst financial crisis in 75 years. It's turned many lives and households upside down. People are now frightened and insecure.
We are now in an era of unprecedented unstable political behaviour and attitudes, much of it driven by economic conditions. Voters are scared and unsettled.
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