Veteran journalist Nick Bryant will be in conversation with Associate Professor Jill Sheppard to discuss this new publication, exploring the unexpected landslide victory for the Labor Party in the 2025 election.

Last year's federal election saw the Liberal Party's worst ever election result and the continued rise of the non-major-party-vote. Australia’s leading election analysts explore what contributed to this outcome, including campaign effectiveness, changing demography, increased cultural and linguistic diversity, and external factors such as the ‘Trump effect’.

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About Associate Professor Jill Sheppard

Dr Jill Sheppard is an associate professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. Her research interests are elections and voting, compulsory voting, political participation, and public opinion, particularly in Australia but also in a comparative context. She is a contributor to the ABC’s federal election coverage and an investigator on several major survey studies of Australian public opinion and behaviour, including the Australian Election Study, World Values Survey, and Asian Barometer Survey.

About Nick Bryant

During a career spanning almost thirty years, Nick Bryant came to be regarded as one of the BBC’s finest foreign correspondents. He has been posted in Washington, South Asia, Australia and New York, where he covered the Trump years. His writing has appeared in The Economist, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Monthly and The New Statesman. He broadcasts regularly on the BBC and ABC. Nick studied history at Cambridge and has a doctorate in American politics from Oxford.