Kim Beazley and the ALP pulled off over 50 percent of the two party preferred vote in 1998, just one term after Paul Keating had been beaten to a pulp by baseball bats.
But... because the electoral swing was "wasted" in the ALP's most "safest" seats, the ALP didn't win.
POD: the swing is in the Lib-Nats marginals, and Beazley becomes PM.
The republic referendum is on the horizon, but other effects of a Labor federal government?