{"product_id":"9781761381898","title":"Earthquake","description":"Author: Savva, Niki\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761381898\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribe Publications\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 22 Nov 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 432\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe best of Niki Savva's scene-setting newspaper columns from \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, along with a riveting and deeply informed analysis of Australia's epoch-making 2025 election.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLabor's landslide victory on 3 May 2025 wreaked havoc across the political landscape. It triggered ministerial assassinations, trashed reputations, destroyed careers, fractured the Coalition, and threatened to fracture it again. It took the Liberal Party to the brink of extinction and turned Anthony Albanese into a Labor hero.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the Coalition government was overthrown in 2022 after nine years in office, it was tempting to portray the loss as merely a personal repudiation of Scott Morrison. Then, when opposition leader Peter Dutton torpedoed the referendum on establishing an Indigenous Voice to parliament, his standing as a political leader improved and the prime minister's nosedived. That was when, according to Niki Savva, the conservative Coalition thought it had the upcoming election in the bag.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Niki had noticed the ground shifting- the emergence of the teal independents and the long-term threat they represented to the Liberals; the false dawn of Dutton saying no to the Voice referendum; and the overlooked reality, even back in August 2023, that, 'The 2022 federal election result was no ordinary defeat . . . It delivered last rites to the broad-church party that Robert Menzies created.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her highly popular columns, Niki Savva captured all this and more in her typically uncompromising, penetrating, and prescient way. Now, following on from \u003ci\u003eSo Greek\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlots and Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBulldozed\u003c\/i\u003e, she also provides a detailed, considered analysis of what went on behind the scenes, accompanied by her trademark access to important players and eyewitnesses, of an election that transformed Australian politics.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46729837510814,"sku":"UBD-9781761381898","price":36.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781761381898.jpg?v=1776650797","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781761381898","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}