Well, it's fair to say few saw that election result coming.
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I certainly didn't and firmly believed until 7pm Saturday that Bill Shorten was going to be our next Prime Minister.
This view was based on dozens of polls in the last three years - up to and including an exit poll on Saturday that all pointed to Labor winning the election.
These were polls that contributed to the fall of two Liberal prime ministers since 2015 yet, seemingly they were all wrong.
Whether it was due to "shy Tory syndrome" (so called because British polls also underestimate the right of centre vote) or methodology issues or the fact no one uses landlines any more, no one is sure, but the margin of error was great.
My congratulations to prime minister Scott Morrison and his team for defying those polls and the expectations.
There is no doubt the PM himself ran an energetic campaign and can take the lion's share of the glory though now will have to outline his agenda.
The Coalition will now be in his image for the next three years and let's hope he and his party rule wisely and can wade a path though what still looks like an unruly Senate (which now includes Cloncurry-born Susan McDonald on the government benches).
Queensland as usual was a telling battlefield in the election with Labor completely failing to sell its message north of the Tweed.
It was all over the place on Adani depending on who they were talking to and Mr Morrison was more trusted in the North and in Brisbane's mortgage belt.
The negative ad campaign can't have hurt him either though the enormous splurge spent by Clive Palmer didn't help Mr Palmer and he and his team have crashed and burned.
If I didn't get the election outcome right, all I can say is I was a bit more on the ball with the local result.
Of course it was no big deal to predict Bob Katter would win Kennedy but I correctly called the order of all six candidates.
My only mistake in the "verdict" I published on Saturday was saying Brett McGuire would improve Labor's total from 2016. He didn't, reflecting the way Labor were on the nose throughout Queensland - Derek Barry