2024 Australian Federal Election (Usernamebackwards)

The 2024 Australian federal election was held on Saturday 23 November 2024 to elect members of the 48th Parliament of Australia. The incumbent Labor Government led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese secured a second term in office, however was reduced into minority government. The Liberal/National Coalition had their worst ever election, reduced to 28% of seats in the lower house. The new Moderate Party formed by many of the 'teal independents' elected in 2022 won 15 seats. Up for election were all 151 seats in the lower house, the House of Representatives, and 40 of the 76 seats in the upper house, the Senate.

Formation of Moderate Party
Following the 2022 federal election, several 'Teal Independents' were elected to the lower house in traditionally safe Liberal seats. These independents had run on largely the same platform of integrity and climate action, leading to speculation they would form a party. On Thursday 17 August in a joint press conference Kate Chaney, Zoe Daniel, Monique Ryan, Sophie Scamps, Zali Steggal, David Pockock, as well as Liberal Party members Bridget Archer and Simon Birmingham announced they would be forming the "Moderate Party" which would contest the upcoming by-elections and "be a home for moderate Liberals" which the party "...no longer represents."

The Moderate party initially 6 MPs and 2 senators, however this increased to 7 MPs after the election of Mark Sturgill in Aston.

Composition of Parliament
The 47th Parliament was inaugurated on 26 July 2022. At this point the Liberal and National parties had elected new leaders; with Peter Dutton becoming the leader of the leader of the Liberal Party, and David Littleproud becoming leader of the National Party. On Friday 30 September 2022 former prime minister Scot Morrison announced his resignation from parliament to "pursue other interests". The ensuing by-election in his seat of Cook was won by the Liberal Party, despite an 8% swing to the Labor Party on 2PP.

On Wednesday August 9 2023 the newly established NACC handed down its findings on "Systemic Corruption in the Morrison Government", which found several former ministers to be guilty of corrupt conduct. This report led to the resignations of Peter Dutton, Bridget Mckenzie, Alan Tudge, Barnaby Joyce, Angus Taylor, and Michael Sukkar. The casual vacancy caused by McKenzie's resignation was filled by Mick Harrington. The by-elections in Dickson and Deakin were won by the Labor party; Hume and New England were retained by the Coalition on reduced margins; and Aston was won by the Moderate Party.