‘I’m Not Expecting to Lose …’: The Election Overview and Campaign Narrative

Australia: Political development and data for 2017

“…The Liberal‐National government's slimmest of winning margins continued to haunt its performance during 2017 (Taflaga and Wanna ()). Malcolm Turnbull continued to lead opposition leader Bill Shorten as preferred Prime Minister; however, throughout 2017, the Coalition government was unable to close the gap on the Labor opposition in two‐party preferred terms.…”