Sunday 8 May 2022 11:08 PM Peter van Onselen to return to The Project for election night special trends now
Channel 10's political editor Peter van Onselen will front the network's election night coverage with The Project anchor Waleed Aly on May 21.
It will be a 'joint The Project/10 News First' broadcast, with newsreader Sandra Sully also lined up to co-host alongside a panel consisting of journalist Jan Fran, Social Services Minister Anne Ruston, NSW Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes, and Labor politicians Stephen Jones and Ed Husic, reports The Australian's Media Diary.
PvO's on-air reunion with Aly is notable considering he is rumoured to have a frosty relationship with the other presenters on The Project - namely Lisa Wilkinson and Carrie Bickmore, who publicly chided van Onselen, 46, in January over a column he wrote criticising former Australian of the Year Grace Tame.
Front and centre: Channel 10's political editor Peter van Onselen (pictured) will front the network's election night coverage with The Project anchor Waleed Aly on May 21
Aly and van Onselen last co-hosted 10's election night coverage in 2019.
They infamously called an early victory for Labor leader Bill Shorten before his eventual loss to Scott Morrison.
'There's no way that Scott Morrison can win it and I'm happy to have that replayed time and time again to my shame if he does win it,' van Onselen said at the time.
Aly also said on the night: 'I'm expecting it to fall around 81 [seats for Labor]. I'm basing that on things I've heard from people who should know.'
Back in the fold: PvO's reunion with Aly (pictured) is notable considering he is said to have a frosty relationship with the other presenters on The Project - namely Carrie Bickmore and Lisa Wilkinson, who publicly chided him in January over a column he wrote criticising Grace Tame
Back in January, Bickmore and guest journalist Amy Remeikis tore shreds off van Onselen live on The Project after he wrote a column for The Australian criticising Grace Tame for her 'immature' behaviour around Scott Morrison at The Lodge.
Tame, 27, a left-wing activist and advocate for survivors of sexual assault, had scowled and refused to look the PM in the eye while meeting him and wife Jenny at a morning tea for this year's Australian of the Year finalists.
Van Onselen said Tame should have just stayed home if she couldn't be polite, but Bickmore and Remeikis felt this was not an
