Hello and welcome to Australia Votes 2025!

We will cover all the vote as the night goes on – we have a live show on Youtube and Facebook which you can tune into ahead as you prepare for your election night party – and the live stream will be going until 7.30ish (when we all know you will be turning over to the ABC to see Antony’s swan song)

So you have me, Amy Remeikis and the Australia Institute team bringing you all the live coverage of the votes. We will have expert opinion, a bit of goss, a bit of snark and some insights from different seats, campaigns and what comes next.

Thanks so much for joining us – I will be having a drink as we make our way through this, so hope you will be having what brings you joy as well.

Ready?

Let’s get into it.

(Oh and THRILLED to be able to use some of the photojournalism from Photographer-at-Large at The New Daily, Mike Bowers. Hey Mikey! Here is some of his work from earlier in the day at Bondi)