Hello Australia!! - A stunning sweep in WA - South Koreans demand the arrest of their former president - Finally, someone is standing up for those oppressed white men (gag cough choke hoark) - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Labor swept the Lib-Nats out of power in Western Australia, ending Colin Barnett's eight-and-a-half-year reign as WA Premier.  Labor's Mark McGowan will be sworn in as WA's 30th Premier within a few days.  "Today we showed we are a state of decency and intelligence, not a state of stupidity and ignorance," he said as the results came in, "The core Australian values of equality, fairness, merit and opportunity shone through in this election campaign."  The landslide went beyond the Tories' worst fears, claiming as many as 41 seats when only 30 were needed to oust the Liberal-National Government.  Despite losts of free publicity, Pauline Hanson's One Nation appears to have been locked out of the lower chamber.  

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi put his personal popularity on the line, and it worked.  His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) scored a thumping victory in Uttar Pradesh - home to more than 200 million people, bigger than most countries on earth - grabbing 325 of 403 state assembly seats in the state it has not controlled since 1999.  The BJP's image as a Hindu nationalist party apparently didn't phase Uttar Pradesh's sizeable Muslim population from voting for it, and Modi quote possibly won over Muslim women by questioning of an Islamic practice that allows men to divorce their wives with three simple words.  The resounding victory bodes well for Mr. Modi's national election plans in 2019. 

The White House and US Justice Department are refusing to comment on the latest screw-up/back stabbing, after high-profile Federal Prosecutor Preet Bharara tweeted, "I did not resign.  Moments ago I was fired.  Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life."  On Friday, the Trump misadministration informed 46 federal prosecutors appointed by President Barack Obama to submit their resignations.  But the dismissal of Bharara is troubling, because he is a proven champion of taking on corruption; and because Trump met with Bharara soon after last year's election and had asked him to stay on.  Also troubling, the firing might have been unethical if Bharara had any active investigations into wrongdoing by the current White House.

Former South Korean president Park Geun-Hye has not been heard from since the constitutional court confirmed her impeachment on Friday.  But thousands of South Koeans returned to the streets on Saturday to celebrate and to demand Park be arrested in the massive pay-to-play scandal that ended her presidency and embroiled the country's top corporations.  Legally, Park has no choice but to leave the official presidential residence, the Blue House - but given that her father ran a two decade dictatorship, some are wondering about her intentions:  "By being quiet, she's making it loud and clear that she won't accept the court's ruling," said Professor Yul Shin of Seoul's Myongji University.  "Nobody knows when she will leave the Blue House, but maybe she wanted to see how large the crowd was tonight at the pro-Park rally."  Hint, it probably wasn't large enough.

The jackass chairman of the UK's largest retailer Tesco says white men are becoming an "endangered species" in top business jobs as companies take on more women and ethnic minorities.  In a speech last weel - the day after International Women's Day - Tesco Chairman John Allan said, "If you are a white male - tough - you are an endangered species and you are going to have to work twice as hard."  Allan sits on a board with eight other white men and three white women.  He later said his IDIOTIC comments were "intended to be humorous, a bit hyperbolic". 

Iraqi forces have found a mass grave of about 500 bodies outside Badoush prison near Mosul, the country's second-largest city which is currently being cleared of IS terrorists.  Shia militias said the victims were civilians massacred by the so-called Islamic State.  It appears to back up the 2014 report from Human Rights Watch which said IS murdered hundreds of male inmates when it occupied the area.

If you bought Bitcoins in 2009 and held on, you're still in good shape.  If you bought them last week in hopes that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would approve the Winklevoss twins' plans to make the digital cryptocurrency available on the open stock market, you got screwed.  Royally!  After the SEC rejected the plan, Bitcoins fell off from highs of US$1,325 to around $980 (a one-day swing of 35 percent) before stabilizing around $1180.  But if you bought the unregulated pretend money, you should have expected wild swings, right?  Anyway, what's all this about Ethereum...?

Chicago for some reason tends to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day a week early, and did that "dying the river green" thing that I've had to write annually for 25 fricking years.