Our hosts for the evening were George Megalogenis and Sally Warhaft. These two brilliant people held our hands, steadily discussed each new wave of counting and introduced us to conspiracy theories, history lessons and critical discussion. They were joined at various interludes by Peggy O’Neil, Michael Cooney, Michael Bachelard, Dennis Altman, Margaret Simons, and Rhys Muldoon.

Within hours, though, we all knew.

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At the beginning of the night, we handed out quiz sheets with questions on which candidates would win and by how much, which MPs would leave and which would stay. In a shocking result matching the shock felt around the country on the evening, no one at the Readings Election Party gave correct answers. Not one.

Enormous thank yous to our speakers, our staff and our friends that joined us on the night. Let’s keep sharing stories.

Chris Gordon is the events manager for Readings.