The Red Wave: The 2025 Federal Election

The Red Wave: The 2025 Federal Election

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 Available on Amazon : https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0F93G666VSupport independent journalism for just $5/month: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/newpolitics Substack: https://newpolitics.substack.com

Episodes

May 20, 2025 52 mins
The federal election was announced for May 3, and we unpacked Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ pre-election Budget – marked by cautious politics, modest tax cuts, and the usual barrage from conservative media. Despite early signals of a deficit, the Budget offered little reform, continuing Labor’s trend of incrementalism and risk-averse fiscal policy, with no major action on tax reform, resource royalties, or climate change – even as record...
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In this bumper episode, we analysed the first week of the 2025 federal election campaign, covering rising tensions over Chinese research vessels and national security scare campaigns, Dutton’s Kirribilli House gaffe, and the resurgence of Cold War-era rhetoric, and Prime Minister Albanese’s responses. We spoke with Ellie Smith, the Climate 200-backed independent challenging Dutton in Dickson, and explored how independents and minor...
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We analysed the turbulent second week of the 2025 federal election campaign, where the Liberal–National Coalition’s strategy descended into chaos. The week’s headline issue – the Port of Darwin lease to a Chinese company – was rebranded by Peter Dutton as a national security crisis, only to be politically outplayed by Anthony Albanese, exposing the Coalition’s hypocrisy in approving the deal back in 2015. Behind the scenes, interna...
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In this extended episode, we dissected week three of the 2025 federal election campaign, where Peter Dutton’s Coalition descended further into chaos – facing a credibility crisis driven by misinformation, fear campaigns about Russia, China and Indonesia, and a housing stunt involving his own son. While Anthony Albanese and Labor’s upbeat campaign launch in Perth focused on economic progress, the Liberals doubled down on culture war...
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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-stres...
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 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 chaoti...
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May 20, 2025 68 mins
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 c...
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