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The Age
a day ago
- Politics
- The Age
Federal election tell-all has Canberra quaking
The events of May 3 hit Australia like an earthquake, with the Coalition still picking through the rubble of its election disaster. But another tremor is set to hit the political establishment later this year. We're talking about the publication of a new tell-all book on the 2025 poll penned by formidable political commentator Niki Savva. Rather appropriately titled Earthquake: Signposts to the election that shook Australia, we can reveal Savva has been beavering away on the new book which should be on shelves in late November, just in time to line the Christmas stockings of politicos, hacks, flacks and Insiders tragics across the country. Savva's regular columns for this masthead have a touch of the seismic about them, sending aftershocks reverberating through the Canberra bubble. Her upcoming book on the election, published by Scribe, which combines those highly prescient columns with a series of new reported chapters, will doubtless be hotly anticipated. Savva told CBD the project would seek to get to the bottom of how the 2025 election culminated in a historic landslide victory for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the magnitude of which few saw coming. Loading 'I'm doing my best to try and explain why Labor did so well, how they came to do so well, and why the Liberal Party was taken to the brink of extinction,' she said, adding that it was a question to which many Liberals were also seeking answers. Savva, a former adviser to prime minister John Howard and treasurer Peter Costello, garnered significant attention and a string of awards for her trilogy of scoopy tomes on the Liberal Party's last term in office – The Road to Ruin (on the Tony Abbott-Peta Credlin chaos engine), Plots and Prayers (documenting Malcolm Turnbull 's demise), and Bulldozed (depicting the end of the Scott Morrison government). All three proved deeply uncomfortable reading for many a party insider. Her diagnosis of the Liberals' lowest ebb will be no exception, with Savva telling CBD she'd spoken to many people, and had 'a few morsels' up her sleeve already.
Sydney Morning Herald
a day ago
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
Niki Savva set to release tell-all book on 2025 election
The events of May 3 hit Australia like an earthquake and the Coalition is still picking through the rubble of its election disaster for a glimmer of hope. But another earthquake is set to hit the political establishment later this year. We're talking about the publication of a tell-all book on the 2025 poll penned by formidable political commentator Niki Savva, rather appropriately titled Earthquake: Signposts to the election that shook Australia. CBD can reveal Savva has been beavering away on the book, which will be on shelves in late November – just in time to line the Christmas stockings of politicos, hacks, flacks and Insiders tragics across the country. Savva's regular columns for this masthead have a touch of the seismic about them, sending aftershocks reverberating through the Canberra bubble. Her upcoming book on the election, published by Scribe, which combines those highly prescient columns with a series of new reported chapters, will doubtless be hotly anticipated. Savva told CBD the project would seek to get to the bottom of how the 2025 election culminated in a historic landslide victory for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the magnitude of which few saw coming. 'I'm doing my best to try and explain why Labor did so well, how they came to do so well, and why the Liberal Party was taken to the brink of extinction,' she said, adding that it was a question many Liberals were also seeking answers to. Loading Savva, a former adviser to prime minister John Howard and treasurer Peter Costello, garnered significant attention and a string of awards for her trilogy of scoopy tomes on the Liberal Party's last term in office – The Road to Ruin (on the Tony Abbott-Peta Credlin chaos engine) Plots and Prayers (documenting Malcolm Turnbull 's demise, and Bulldozed (depicting the end of the Scott Morrison government). All three proved deeply uncomfortable reading for many a party insider. Her diagnosis of the Liberals' lowest ebb will be no exception. Savva told CBD she'd already spoken to many people, and that she had 'a few morsels' up her sleeve already.
