Two elections, many lessons for Australia’s parties — major and minor, state and federal — but no easy answers for anyone: How will Tasmania be resolved? Will the swing against the ALP have Federal implications? And does anyone, apart from Possum, actually understand Hare-Clarke?

The SA and Tasmanian battles may be over, but the 2010 political war has just begun, and the pundits are sharpening their swords.

Over at Crikey‘s Election Central blog, our man in the Apple Isle, Charles Richardson, says the outcome in Tassie unfolded pretty much as he expected (and confirms the startling revelation from Friday’s live-chat that Tasmanian electoral booths do not hold sausage sizzles).

Poll Bludger‘s William Bowe liveblogged both elections (who said Crikey commentators don’t know how to have a rocking Saturday night?), and is now tracking the late vote counts in both states.

Meanwhile, Pollytics‘ Possum has already picked up on some seriously interesting swing statistics in SA’s results.

Stay tuned to all our political blogs today, not to mention the Crikey Daily Mail, for more comprehensive Crikey commentary.

In the meantime, the rest of Australia’s commentariat have given their first impressions:

The Australian

Editorial: Tell the truth but keep counting

There are lessons for both sides of national politics in the weekend elections. Kevin Rudd should ease up on the spin, and Tony Abbott should focus on electoral strategy.

Editorial: The will of the politically savvy people on display

The South Australian electorate got it right on the weekend

Editorial: Tasmania’s rocky road ahead

Greens leader Nick McKim has shown that his party has still got a long way to go before it is capable of making the transistion from the politics of protest to the politics of pragmatism.

Glenn Milne: Libs back from the dead and in with a chance

There are two federal messages out of the Tasmanian and South Australian state elections at the weekend: momentum and mathematics. And both are moving Tony Abbott’s way

Dennis Shanahan: Federal lessons for both sides in poll turnarounds

… the Prime Minister and his federal colleagues would do well to look more soberly at the results and the implications for Rudd’s management style and political approach.

Peter van Onselen: Strategist eyes national target after Rann win

If Hawker can deliver South Australian Labor a victory with less than 50 per cent of the two-party vote come election time, imagine what he can do if federal Labor won a majority of the nationwide vote.

Matthew Denholm: Never say never in a hung parliament

A Liberal-Green co-existence has been tried before in the Rundle government of 1996 to 1998, and this ended in acrimony.

Adelaide Advertiser

Nigel Hunt: Bloody campaign leaves Rann badly wounded

… the Rann brand has been irreparably damaged and his days are well and truly numbered.

Sydney Morning Herald

Phillip Coorey: For anti-Labor voters, the feeling is personal

The swing against Labor in South Australia was not so much a backlash against the government but more a sign of discontent…

The Age

Michelle Grattan: Sobering brew for both Rudd and Abbott

… the lesson of SA is that while people are engaged by a new, interesting and feisty opposition leader, quite a few baulk at taking the gamble with someone they are not quite sure will be reliably up to the job.

Herald Sun

Phillip Hudson: Lessons for Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd in South Australian and Tasmanian state election results

The message for the Liberals is that big swings by themselves aren’t enough.