What explained the seismic 2022 federal election? The Australian Election Study has answers
- Written by: Ian McAllister, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Australian National University
The 2022 Australian federal election was distinctive in two ways.
First, it was held in the wake of a major crisis – the COVID-19 pandemic. While the salience of the pandemic had subsided by the time of the election, voters’ assessments of the Coalition government’s performance on the pandemic proved to be a major factor in their...
