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The Red Wave: The 2025 Federal Election

The Red Wave: The 2025 Federal Election

Written by: Eddy Jokovich & David Lewis
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 The definitive podcast series on Australia’s most dramatic federal election in decades. Starting in late April with the cautious pre-election Budget, all the way through to the collapse of the Coalition and a Labor landslide lead by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, New Politics delivers a fearless, unfiltered, and fiercely independent analysis of the 2025 Australian federal election campaign. This in-depth series dissects the policies, scandals, stunts and seismic shifts that defined one of the most consequential political contests in Australian history. Each episode looks at each week of the campaign – from Jim Chalmers’ risk-averse economic blueprint and the media’s cost-of-living hysteria, to Peter Dutton’s populist implosions and Labor’s silence on Gaza. We unravel culture war tactics, leadership misfires, international tensions, climate betrayals, and the growing influence of community independents, Greens, and Muslim voters. With expert interviews, sharp commentary and a curated soundtrack to the chaos, this is Australian politics with guts.

Now compiled into the bestselling book:
The Red Wave: The New Politics Review of the 2025 Australian Federal Election
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Episodes
  • Welcome To Albanese Country

    Welcome To Albanese Country
    May 20 2025
    In this extended episode, we analysed the historic 2025 federal election, where Anthony Albanese led the Labor Party to one of the most decisive victories in Australian political history – winning 94 seats, achieving a 3 per cent swing, and securing 55 per cent of the two-party-preferred vote. We explored how Labor broke new ground in metropolitan seats across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and beyond, while the Liberal Party collapsed under Peter Dutton’s disastrous leadership – becoming the first sitting federal Opposition Leader to lose his seat. With a massive lower house majority and a favourable Senate, we discuss what Labor can do with its unprecedented political capital, the implications for progressive reform, and why this election marked not just a change of government, but a generational shift in Australian politics. We also assessed the setbacks faced by the Australian Greens and the mixed results for community independents, the rise of the Muslim Vote, and what the future holds for a fractured conservative movement. #AUSPOL #Election2025

    This podcast series has been compiled into the book, The Red Wave: The New Politics review of the 2025 Australian federal election, available through Amazon:
    • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0F93G666V

    Support New Politics! Just $5 per month:
    • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/newpolitics
    • Substack: https://newpolitics.substack.com

    Song listing:
    1. ‘Good Stuff’, The B-52s.
    2. ‘Atomic Moog 2000’, Coldcut
    3. ‘Spitfire’, Public Service Broadcasting
    4. ‘Confessions Of A Window Cleaner’, Ed Kuepper.
    5. ‘Stranger in Moscow’, Tame Impala.
    6. ‘Humiliation’, The National.
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • The Final Week: Dutton’s Collapse, Albanese’s Edge and Labor to win

    The Final Week: Dutton’s Collapse, Albanese’s Edge and Labor to win
    May 20 2025
    In the final week of the 2025 federal election campaign, we unpacked Peter Dutton’s total campaign collapse, Anthony Albanese’s edge in the polls, and why a Labor victory looked inevitable. From debate disasters and media blunders to desperate culture war tactics and vanishing credibility, we explored the major moments, analysed the role of independents and the Australian Greens, and predicted the election result. It's been chaotic, it's been revealing – and was not looking good for the Coalition. #AUSPOL #Election2025

    This podcast series has been compiled into the book, The Red Wave: The New Politics review of the 2025 Australian federal election, available through Amazon:
    • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0F93G666V

    Support New Politics, just $5 per month:
    • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/newpolitics
    • Substack: https://newpolitics.substack.com

    Song listing:
    1. ‘Good Stuff’, The B-52s.
    2. ‘Confessions Of A Window Cleaner’, Ed Kuepper.
    3. ‘State Of The Art (A.E.I.O.U.)’, Jim James.
    4. ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’, The Who (remix).
    5. ‘The Last Goodbye’, Odesza.
    6. ‘Humiliation’, The National.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • After four weeks of the campaign: Is it all over?

    After four weeks of the campaign: Is it all over?
    May 20 2025
    Week four of the federal election campaign shrank to three working days – bookended by Easter Monday and ANZAC Day – and was upended by the death of Pope Francis, briefly halting campaigns by Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton. Dutton’s own mis-fires – touting a $21 billion defence splurge, scrapping the 20 per cent HECS discount, axing EV subsidies, and floating an antisemitism-focused citizenship test – clashed with mortgage-stressed voters hearing nonstop “cost-of-living crisis” headlines despite inflation falling and wages rising. Fresh opinion polls put Labor ahead at around 54–46, leaving the only real question of whether there would be majority Labor government or minority backed by Teals and Greens, while climate, NDIS, housing and Gaza stayed off the radar. #AUSPOL #Election2025

    This podcast series has been compiled into the book, The Red Wave: The New Politics review of the 2025 Australian federal election, available through Amazon:
    • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0F93G666V

    Support New Politics, just $5 per week!
    • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/newpolitics
    • Substack: https://newpolitics.substack.com

    Song listing:
    1. ‘Good Stuff’, The B-52s.
    2. ‘Godless’, The Dandy Warhols.
    3. ‘Feels Right’, Biig Piig.
    4. ‘Let Me Entertain You’, Robbie Williams.
    5. ‘The Hard Road’, Hilltop Hoods.
    6. ‘Humiliation’, The National.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
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