When the Federal Parliament resumes on 22 July, it will come with a glaring visual reminder of the size of Anthony Albanese’s election victory. Labor returns to Parliament with 94 House of Representatives Members, but the seating configuration in the chamber will only accommodate 87 MPs on the government benches. So significant was Albanese’s victory […]

Although the final count is yet to be determined, this is the biggest win for federal Labor since 1943. They have cleaned up in Tasmania, won at least seven additional seats in Queensland, secured a substantial swing to Labor in NSW, and have even picked up some Liberal seats in Victoria – largely unthinkable just […]

The key to clickbait is shock and awe … but even those who trumpet the most farcical of ‘facts’ could not have eclipsed the astonishing certitude of the 2025 election result. This was not a Labor Landslide. It was an Albanese Avalanche. But let’s not succumb to amnesia. The flabbergasting outcome of May 3, and […]

The red wave that washed through the House of Representatives on Saturday also trickled into the Senate.  Bear with me a moment, as I’m a dork for the Senate and have been since I was a child (my mother must have dropped me on my head as a baby). As the House of Review, the Senate […]

The 2025 election has delivered a resounding result for the Australian Labor Party and has instigated deep soul-searching within the Liberal Party. What shouldn’t be quickly forgotten, however, is the anti-incumbency mood that dominated political commentary for so long. Before the campaign proper, globally we saw the removal of the UK Government, US administration and […]

Two rays of hope have emerged from the smoking rubble of the 2025 election result for Bob Menzies’ once-proud Liberals. In the affluent urban suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney, green shoots have appeared.  Two Liberal candidates, Tim Wilson and Gisele Kapterian, have risen from the dead and are on track to reclaim Goldstein (Melbourne) and possibly Bradfield […]

The SAS Group congratulates Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party on their emphatic victory over the weekend. We also thank the many candidates—from all walks of life and political persuasions—who contested the 150 electorates across this vast country and helped uphold our uniquely Australian way of life and democracy.  For weeks—indeed, months—leading up […]

For what felt like eons before PM Anthony Albanese fired the starting gun on the race to May 3, everyone was certain this would be an election like never before. How right everyone was! Yes, the heat was on big, heavy topics (such as cost of living, cost of living and cost of living), but […]

Donald Trump has cast a long, orange shadow across the opening days of the Australian election campaign, and there’s every indication this will continue for the remaining four weeks. It’s difficult to remember a time when the actions of a foreign head of state have been such a prominent feature of a domestic election campaign. We’d […]