The Wharf Revue: The End of the Wharf as We Know It

The Wharf Revue: The End Of The Wharf As We Know It will bring everyone’s most loved – or despised – politicians and public figures to Brisbane for the very last time from February 11-16, 2025.

For their final show ever, The Wharf Revue will once again showcase their surprising talents in an hilarious not-to-be-missed production full of sketches, parodies and musical numbers.

Featuring past and present pollies including Keating, Howard, Gillard, Abbott, Lambie, Hanson, Bandt, Dutton, and Albo, in the “Year of the Election” no side of politics is safe from ridicule in The Wharf Revue’s (Wayne) Swan song.

Written by Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe, and Phillip Scott who also star in the show with Mandy Bishop and David Whitney, there will be more laughs than Question Time in Parliament when Katter has the floor to rant about crocodiles.

After twenty-five years in the harsh and unforgiving spotlight of politics, The Wharf Revue team has decided to step away from public life.

“It’s an opportunity to spend more time with family,” said a Wharf Revue spokesperson. “At the end of the day, this is about the need for renewal. We’ll serve one last term to max out the super and then try to pick up some kind of consultancy work or do a series of Survivor – look, it’s too early to say but it has been an honour to serve the Australian people.”

Since its beginnings at the close of the 20th century, The Wharf Revue has had no shortage of inspiration in the political landscape over the years. Politicians from home and abroad continue to provide material you really couldn’t make up. In true Australian fashion, The Wharf Revue has spent decades dedicated to the worthy cause of satirising these ‘leaders’ of the world.

In 2025 The Wharf Revue will go out on a high even with politics at an all-time low, giving meaning to the phrase, ‘if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry’!

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