In this talk we will cover three main topics. First, we examine the results of the 2019 federal election and discuss the two major issues that determined the outcome of that election, namely, policies on taxation and factors associated with leadership. Second, we provide an overview of long term trends in electoral behaviour, and how these trends may affect elections in the future. Finally, we look at the political implications of the current pandemic. Before we turn to these topics, some background about the Australian Election Study (AES) survey itself. We have been conducting the AES since 1987, completing 12 surveys after each federal election. We typically ask about 250 questions of each survey respondent; about 90 questions are ones that we ask consistently from election to election. We have therefore accumulated a huge amount of information about why people voted in each election, what they thought was important, and much else besides. This unrivalled database allows us to trace long term trends in electoral behaviour (Cameron and McAllister 2019b, McAllister 2011). The survey we conducted in 2019 went into the field immediately after the election in May and it was in the field until September (McAllister et al. 2020). We surveyed just over 2,000 respondents nationally, with a response rate of 42 percent. More information and interactive charts are available at www.australianelectionstudy.org.