CANBERRA OBSERVED July 2: Independence Day or Groundhog Day?

It is astonishing to think that Australia could find itself back in the muddled era when team Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott controlled Federal Parliament, yet political analysts are suddenly speaking as if it is a real prospect.   Popping up all over again. In an election that many say will be close, and in which it is unlikely that Labor will win all the seats it needs to govern in its own right, the next most likely prospect will be a hung parliament.   Four crossbench MPs – the Greens’ Adam Bandt, Queensland’s Bob Katter, Tasmanian Andrew Wilkie and…