Rupture — Niki Savva and Waleed Aly on how our politics is being transformed

From the rise of One Nation at home, to surprising election results abroad, recent events suggest that people feel that politics as usual is no longer delivering for them. So what alternatives are they reaching for?

This conversation Political Rupture: Identity, Equality and Opportunity was recorded at the Canberra Writers Festival on 17 October 2026.

Speakers:

Niki Savva

Author, Earthquake: the election that shook Australia and more

Political commentator and columnist with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers

Former press secretary to Liberal Treasurer Peter Cosetllo

Waleed Aly

Author, Chaos: Dispatches from disorder, Time of Monsters: What Future for Liberalism? (Quarterly Essay #103) and more

Co-host (with Scott Stephens) of The Minefield, ABC Radio National

Adjunct Professor at Monash University

Columnist with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspaper