In some ways it kind of makes it worse that we knew a bit about who he was come election time.

Truth be told, Scomo was barely a figure anyone would have recognized until he was suddenly PM. He was there in the shadows but few would have picked him to be our next PM.

The re-election however I get the feeling that was a bit down to people starting to feel the pressure from a slowing economy. With that many were voting to ensure a system they knew even if not ideal. Better the devil you know than to try their hand on an nearly unknown candidate.

I don't really know, there is so much noise in the political space nowadays that it is difficult to get much signal out of it.

he won because people were afraid of what Shorten and his cronies were saying they would do, in my mind it's a bit of a 'stuck in between a rock and a hard place'

This is true, I hate that our election system boils down to just two parties in the end even if we do use preferential voting.