"Your comprehensive win... was demonstrably a true indication of the trust, confidence and support the Australian constituents have in your leadership qualities and, more importantly, the political, social and economic policies of the Liberal party," O'Neill said.
But, alas, they just didn't have any policies at the moment.
Because, on specific flagship policies, just what would Liberal Democrats oppose when in government with them?
This month's Guardian/ICM poll suggests the answer is a cautious yes – but the party has yet to convince voters it has the right team and policies to run the country.
The International Energy Agency has just released a report on what it thinks will be happen to the energy mix in sub-Saharan Africa under its "new policies scenario".
But even in the best case scenario, one of these policies would be driven to a remote forest location by some psychopathic coalition senior partner, then made to dig its own grave with a Lib Dem campaign pen.
The social media company is also banning indirect threats of violence, and will introduce temporary suspensions for accounts that fall foul of its policies.
Speaking on the BBC1's Andrew Marr Show, the shadow home secretary attempted to draw a distinction between her approach and those of the two other main hopefuls, Burnham and Kendall, who have been quicker to distance themselves from some of former leader Ed Miliband's election policies.
Other reactionary policies such as those against some parts of the renewable energy sector are not thought-out.
But there's a simple explanation: we have reached the part of the campaign where politicians and the media are all dog-tired, have no idea which bit of the country they're in today and have a form of snow-blindness from the blizzard of policies the parties have pumped out.
However, this is not an alternative to good password policies such as using 1Password, LastPass or similar to generate and save passwords to reduce the risk from brute force attacks and similar.
