Channel 10’s political editor Peter van Onselen says he ‘forgot to vote’

Peter van Onselen, the Political Editor of Network 10, left his colleagues shocked on election night time by confessing he’d forgotten to vote.

The high-profile journalist and tutorial, 46, made the startling admission dwell on air on Saturday because the outcomes of the federal election trickled in.

‘Sandra, I simply realised I forgot to vote,’ he advised his co-host Sandra Sully, as all the panel gasped, ‘What!?’ 

Sully and her co-hosts Jan Fran and Hugh Riminton, the National Affairs Editor for Network 10, seemed shocked by van Onselen’s revelation.

Labor politician Ed Husic even shook his head in disapproval and rolled his eyes.

While van Onselen was seemingly too busy on election day to go to the polls, he may simply have voted early or through put up like hundreds of thousands of Australians.

The surreal second went unnoticed by viewers on Saturday night time – seemingly as a result of Channel 10 had simply 78,000 metro viewers for its election protection.

But it reached a wider viewers on Tuesday when it was performed on 10’s comedy present The Cheap Seats, which compiles the most important gaffes of the week.

Host Tim McDonald stated van Onselen’s mistake was particularly egregious given he is not only a political journalist.

PvO additionally occurs to be a ‘professor of politics with a PhD in political science, in addition to the creator of a number of books about former Prime Ministers, together with John Howard, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison.

Mr Morrison conceded defeat to Labor chief Anthony Albanese on Saturday after Australians voted in favour of a change in authorities.

Mr Albanese was sworn in as PM on Monday, and promptly flew Tokyo the place he is collaborating in high-level talks with the heads of the United States, Japan and India.