The ‘feminisation’ of Labor is a key reason Australians embraced it – and Anthony Albanese

By Paul Strangio, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Monash University

Watching elections over the decades, one thing that has struck me is that results are invariably hyperbolised in the first blush of the people’s verdict. The achievement of the winners is over-egged in the commentary, as is the scale of the calamity suffered by the losers.

That caveat notwithstanding, I think we can credibly say that Saturday’s election result was the most momentous since John Howard’s totemic victory of 2001 — a win that set in train much of what has happened in Australian politics over the course of this century.

As I suggested in my

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