The final Senate results are in and the Star Wars cantina of the last parliament will look monocultural compared to this menagerie of madness.

Nine Greens (better than 10, I suppose), three centre-left Xenophon populists, four Hansonite populists, the Human Headline, and Tasmania’s answer to Boadicea. At least the is some returning soundness in Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm and Family First’s Bob Day, whose liberal thinking puts many big “L” Liberals to shame.