Election Speeches
Each election, Prime Ministerial candidates lay out their parties’ platforms in campaign speeches. These speeches are more than just historical records; they tell us about national concerns and political obsessions, wars and drought, industry and society. They speak to – and in some cases, exploit – our aspirations and our fears.
The site collects the official election speeches by successful and unsuccessful candidates from every election from 1901 right up to the present day.
![Election speeches home page](https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/730eb294fd016e918c3b22fb7de074da52a486f3/faafa/dzxvuqn6mt3gk/view/e6/84/13/f4/70/db/9e/60/f8/09/18/7f/8d/a6/42/70/w1sicmvzaxpliiwiodawil1d/385db8088c2b8ed0eac7086e43f8b8c4bc75786a/home.png)
Reading level and speech length
![Detail of speech by Stanley Melbourne Bruce](https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/ee50955d1aeb95681eb6e0d8d6fa1ad00a8ade6c/7c814/dzxvuqn6mt3gk/view/22/bf/aa/55/e8/28/b2/91/85/c3/e0/d6/93/4d/7f/3d/w1sicmvzaxpliiwiodawil1d/385db8088c2b8ed0eac7086e43f8b8c4bc75786a/speech-detail.png)