Less than two months before Australia went to the polls for May’s federal election, the expectation was that the Coalition would achieve a shock victory, becoming the first opposition to unseat a federal government after a single term since the Great Depression.
Then, as the spotlight turned to then Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, his frontbench, and the Coalition’s policies, it all swiftly went wrong.
In less than a month, the balance of betting odds saw the Coalition go from the odds-on favourite to win to, at best, an outside chance.