Of all the dead-wrong predictions made about this election, nothing could be more off-beam than the expectation that it would provide a unifying moment for American women, writes Annabel Crabb.
If anyone tries to tell you the ascent of a man who bragged about grabbing women "by the pussy" has nothing to do with gender or sexism, don't let them, writes Lucia Osborne-Crowley.
By Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Thousands of people are marching on the streets in the US in protest at the result of the US election. That same anger has driven thousands more for over a year now — to Donald Trump rallies.
Trump supporters told me over and over that he would win in a landslide and it seemed to me they were right, according to what I was seeing with my own eyes in Pittsburgh, writes Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel.
We might assume that in Australia, an idiosyncratic billionaire couldn't win office through bluster, chutzpah and well-targeted populism that struck a chord with discontented voters. And yet we've already had our very own Donald Trump.
Malcolm Turnbull is taking the approach – sound enough - of trying to get in early with the President-elect, while reassuring Australians the alliance with the United States remains safe.
Hillary Clinton portrayed Donald Trump having access to the "nuclear codes" as a doomsday scenario, but now those fears have become a reality.
Is Donald Trump the gracious winner of election night, who called on the country to unite, or the spiteful bully who wants to jail his opponent? Either way it looks likely to be a white-knuckle ride, political editor Chris Uhlmann writes.
Donald Trump's election as US president is shocking, but it's the logical outcome of the disdain with which US elites treat their compatriots, writes Geraldine Doogue.