Hello and spike

Spike's deputy editor Tom Slater.

Hello and spike columnist Ella Whelan

Coming up on the show the Australian elections

Milkshaking and Mayor Pete versus Thomas Jefferson.

How good is Australia?

The report from Canberra on the most unlikely and unexpected general election victory

in modern Australian history.

Years of polling from a number of different outlets predicted that Bill Shorten and the

Labour Party would be successful on Saturday.

These are the quiet Australians who have won a great victory tonight.

Last weekend, the National Liberal Coalition won a surprise victory in the Australian elections.

This was supposed to be an unloosable election for the opposition Labour Party.

All of the polls pointed to a Labour victory.

One polling organisation, News Pole, predicted a defeat for the coalition in 56 successive polls.

Tom, can you tell us a bit about this shock election win?

Well it was definitely a shock and the reason it was a shock

Fraser as you point to was just the fact that received opinion,

all of the polling had been pointing towards a

labour victory, not just in the kind of campaign, but for years.

You know, as you say, there were these 56 consecutive polls which suggested labour victory,

an exit poll which was seen as broadly infallible. which suggested that Labour were

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