Howard's defeat: one year on

This weekend marks the first year of the Rudd Labor government and the landslide win against John Howard.

If the defeat of the Howard government was the cake on the night of 24 November 2007, the icing on the cake was the victory of Maxine McKew who stood against Howard in the seat of Bennelong and won. Howard became in his own words 'dead meat' and became the second prime minister to lose his seat in Australian history.