But how am I going to explain this to the Americans?

Right, so, the Australian High Court has declared five Australian politicians ineligible for Australian parliament - ONE OF THEM THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER. There were seven in total, but five were declared ineligible (two of whom had already resigned). The other two were allowed (but one had already resigned before the verdict came out).

This was after that self-same deputy prime minister (now ineligible for his position and out of parliament) gleefully cackled over those two who pre-resigned discovering themselves ineligible.

Let me tell you, the schadenfreude is DELICIOUS.