After weeks of campaigning, the voting is over, but as the winners prepare to take up their new roles in Parliament, perhaps you're thinking we should spare a thought for the losers... and what actually happens to them anyway?

The Quicky speaks to three experts in Australian politics to find out what it means to lose an election (and your job), whether you're the Prime Minister of Australia, party leader,  a backbencher, or a bureaucrat who was never known to the public anyway.

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CREDITS 

Host: Gemma Bath

With thanks to:

Associate Professor Paul Williams - Political scientist, practitioner and theorist across three scholarly professions – political science, journalism and pedagogy with more than 30 years’ professional experience, based at Griffith University

Amy Remeikis - Guardian Australia's political reporter

Mark Kenny - Australian Studies Professor at the Australian National University's College of Arts and Social Sciences, and host of the weekly politics and public affairs podcast, Democracy Sausage With Mark Kenny

Producer: Claire Murphy / Gemma Bath

Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane

Audio Producer: Jacob Round

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