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Victoria Premier Dan Andrews said voters "rejected the low road of fear and division" offered by the Liberal-Nationals coalition and had "overwhelmingly endorsed a positive and optimistic plan for our state" fronted by Labor.  Areas traditionally held by conservatives, including in eastern suburbs such as Ringwood, fell one by one to Labor with swings as much as eight or nine percent. 

France's latest "Yellow Vest" protests against rising fuel prices devolved into violence in Paris on Saturday.  Some protesters deviated from the planned protest route and headed towards the Presidential Palace, and the police reacted with tear gas and water cannons to push them back.  From there, police clashed with masked protesters who toppled one of the water cannon vehicles and burned it along with a couple of police cars on the Champs Elysees.  In the midst of this battle, protesters in the east took over a highway toll booth and lifted the gates, allowing drivers to pass through for free.  This differed from the usual protests in the French, in that the protesters did appear to come from across the French political spectrum instead of the whole thing being controlled by one party or union.  The government accused the far-right of infiltrating the protests and causing the trouble.

Tory Brexiteers are apoplectic over PM Theresa May apparently giving Spain what it wants for the UK territory of Gibraltar, rather than face Madrid's veto of the deal to leave the European Union next March.  A leaked EU document reportedly says the Gibraltar will not be covered in the Brexit deal, and its future trade relationship with the EU will have to be approved by Spain.  "It appears that there is no-one the prime minister will not betray to achieve her sell-out deal," said Conservative Party MP Andrew Bridgen.  Labor and the Lib-Dems are also speaking out against this, calling for a new referendum to give the British people a chance to put an end to the Brexit and keep the status quo. 

The incoming Mexican government is backing the Trump administration's plan to change US border policy.  It would require asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through American courts.  The Washington Post reports that the agreement breaks with long-standing asylum rules and place a formidable barrier in the path of Central American migrants attempting to reach the United States and escape poverty and violence.  Mexico's incoming interior minister Olga Sanchez Cordero cautions that this is a "short term solution".

Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman (MBS) is scheduled to visit Tunisia on 27 November, but opposition groups are planning to greet him with protests.  Politicians and civil society groups object because of the Saudi role in the Yemen civil war, and MBS's alleged role in the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the consulate in Istanbul.  "We will not welcome the devastator of Yemen and its people, the one who is suspected of being behind the gruesome killing of Khashoggi," said Hamma Hammami, the spokesperson of the main opposition Popular Front party.  Most parties consider MBS's visit to be inconsistent with Tunisia's transition to democracy, the one success story of the 2010-2011 so-called "Arab Spring".

Former Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for medical treatment, and has apparently been there for the past two months.  The 94-year old is reportedly no longer able to walk because of ill health and advanced age.  "Of course, he now is unable to walk but whatever he asks for we will provide," said President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the former intelligence chief who took over from Mugabe after a largely bloodless coup a year ago.

Voters in Taiwan have backed anti-gay marriage referendums, which creates an instant clash with the high court which in March 2017 ruled such a ban is unconstitutional and ordered the government to fully legalize marriage equality by March of next year.  To make matters more opaque, President Tsai Ing-wen quit as leader of the governing party after defeats in local election contests, so it is not clear where leadership on this issue will come from.