Australian Federal Election, 2048 (Casting Shadows)

The 2048 Australian Federal Election was a parliamentary election that took place on Saturday, 19 September 2048. It was won by the Andrew Burges-led Australian Nationalist Party (ANP) against the new opposition Australian Democratic Party (ADP), led by Walter Keyes, and proved to be the final democratic election prior to the Dissolution Acts.

The election was the first and only election to operate under a new double dissolution system (which all seats in both the upper and lowers houses were up for election). The incumbent party one easily on the back of the institution of a national white Australia policy and the the barring of first generation, non-white immigrants from many aspects of everyday life.

The more centrist offshoot of the Liberal National Party also reached the apex of its power in parliament during the election; the Australian Democratic Party. Absorbing the remaining Liberal National seats, they took their place in opposition after successfully steering many voters disenfranchised by the Burges government's power to vote for them.