Party Animals

The Labor Party was the unbeatable favourite to win the 2019 election right up until the polls closed and voters delivered the shock verdict.If the results surprised pundits, they also shocked Bill Shorten and his frontbench who had spent the final weeks of the campaign carefully planning for their first days in office.The cast of villains to blame was long: billionaire Clive Palmer’s grotesque $60 million spend-a-thon, the death tax scare campaign, Bill Shorten’s unpopularity, the Murdoch tabloids and Labor’s tax-and-spend policy agenda that included a crackdown on franking credits that was too hard to explain but too easy for the Liberals to demonise.How did the Labor Party lose the un-lose-able election? Party Animals uncovers the secret history of a Labor fiasco, the untold story behind Scott Morrison’s miracle.

Samantha Maiden is the political editor for the New Daily. She has covered federal politics from the Canberra press gallery for 21 years including the rise and fall of six prime ministers, seven elections and multiple leadership challenges. She is a regular panellist on The Project and The Drum. Leah has been a popular television & radio presenter for the last 13 years. She shot to national prominence during her time on the music channel [V] and has hosted The Home Team, DIY Rescue and Live This. She has also hosted radio shows on Triple M, Mix and Nova 969 in Sydney as well as SAFM and Triple M in Adelaide. She has been the voice of numerous high-profile advertising campaigns across the country and recently narrated the acclaimed SBS TV series My Restaurant in India.

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