Technically, the Korean war is ongoing. Technically, the 2016 Australian election has become similarly open-ended.

Its distended double-dissolution campaign was excruciating at the time, imparting a sense that it would never end. Now we find... it hasn't!

Malcolm Turnbull and John Alexander in happier times in April this year. Credit:AAP

Even the "job lot" evaluation of the "citizenship 7" by the High Court in October, failed to settle things.

Just days after that landmark ruling, the Senate president admitted an undisclosed British allegiance that rendered him ineligible all along. Other names would also be thrown into doubt.