On Saturday, Australian voters delivered a federal election result so close (and still too close to call) that it cannot be used by any side to obscure the continuing breakdown of the country’s political order. Rather than giving a clear mandate to either the Liberal-National Coalition government or Labor opposition, the election results have, as Bloomberg put it, sunk Australia “into limbo.”

The election was the first at the federal level since Malcolm Turnbull took over as prime minister last September, following a Liberal party room coup against the terminally unpopular Tony Abbott — the fifth national leadership switch in six years.

Now there is a very real possibility that we will see another changing of the guard.