Ghost of Elections Past

The 2019 federal election, in which voters confounded the polls by returning Scott Morrison and Liberal–National Coalition to power, was a hard loss for many Labor supporters to stomach. Three years on, despite a series of scandals and public outrage at how Morrison had handled crises such as the 2019–20 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires, the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2022 floods, many Labor supporters were still anxious about their chances of winning government.