A new book on the 2025 election reveals Labor’s commanding win – but also a fragmented electorate, a weakened opposition and a volatile political landscape.

It seems like an eternity since the Albanese government was re-elected in a startling landslide on May 3, 2025 – but it is just 11 months.

Now we have an authoritative book called Landslide, edited by Marian Sawer, Jill Sheppard and John Warhurst, published by ANU Press. It appears in time for the anniversary of Labor’s stunning victory.

A lot has happened since then in Australian and world politics.

Anthony Albanese is the only one of the four major party leaders still in office.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton and Greens leader Adam Bandt lost their seats at the election. The Liberals have had two leaders since, first Sussan Ley and now Angus Taylor.

Senator Matt Canavan leads the Nationals in place of the “buggered” David Littleproud.

Since the election Albanese has reconciled, but now fallen out with, US President Donald Trump, who has triggered extraordinary world turbulence in economics and politics from which Australia cannot escape.

Most recently Trump has initiated with Israel another Middle East War.

Last December, we had the Bondi terrorist attack on the Jewish community and since then the creation of a Royal Commission into antisemitism and social cohesion.

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has defected from the Nationals to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, which itself has soared in the polls.

Two rate rises and an oil crisis have exacerbated Australia’s existing........

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