Earthquake: Signposts to the Election That Shook Australia

Niki Savva

Nov 2025 · Bolinda · Narrated by Rebecca Macauley

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When the Coalition government of Australia was overthrown in 2022, it was tempting to portray the loss as merely a repudiation of Scott Morrison. And when opposition leader Peter Dutton torpedoed the referendum on establishing an Indigenous Voice to parliament, his credibility as a political leader improved at the expense of the prime minister's. That was when, according to Niki Savva, the conservative Coalition thought it had the forthcoming election in the bag. What followed was a sequence of events that resulted in an improbable triumph for Labor and a historic drubbing for the Liberal Party. By early May 2025, she could see signs of the earthquake to come – quoting Labor strategists' confidence that Dutton could be beaten in his own seat of Dickson. In her highly popular columns, Niki Savva captured all this and more in her typically uncompromising, penetrating, and prescient way. Now, in addition, she provides a considered analysis of what went on behind the scenes, informed by her trademark access to important players and eyewitnesses, before an election that transformed Australian politics.

About the author

Niki Savva is an award-winning and bestselling author and journalist, and is one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery. She was twice political correspondent for The Australian, and has headed up the Canberra bureaus of both The Herald Sun and The Age newspapers. In 2017 she received a lifetime achievement award from the Melbourne Press Club for ‘outstanding coverage of Australian politics as a reporter, columnist and author’. Savva's books include: So Greek, a memoir which also analysed the relationship between John Howard and Peter Costello and an award-winning and bestselling trilogy about Australia's coalition governments from 2013 to 2022: The Road to Ruin; Plots and Prayers; and Bulldozed. Her latest book is Earthquake: Signposts to the Election That Shook Australia (2025).

Rebecca Macauley is a talented and award-winning narrator. She has appeared in a variety of television programs, including the internationally popular series Neighbours and the Australian drama Blue Heelers. Her work includes the US feature film Darkness Falls and the children's television series Wicked Science. Rebecca has previously narrated Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta and Ursula Dubosarsky's Abyssinia.

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