In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today ...

The Chinese naval exercises, in international waters off Australia’s eastern coast, while legal, have nonetheless sparked ...

Former Howard Government Minister Peter McGauran has weighed in on what Clive Palmer and his new party ‘Trumpet of Patriots’ ...

Australian Labor Party (ALP) senator Doug Cameron summed up his eleven-year senate career with characteristic candor. “It all comes down to one thing: socialism,” he said. Cameron’s words — and the ...

What do the weekend byelection results in Victoria tell us about Peter Dutton’s prospects in one of Labor’s strongest states?

The Liberal Party has been left scrambling after the identity of its candidate for the federal seat of Corio was leaked and a ...

Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie has slammed Labor, suggesting the major party is using "industrial-scale seat stacking” to win seats in Western Sydney ahead of the federal election. Home Affairs ...

A rank-and-file meeting voted unanimously in favour of a resolution calling for a campaign throughout the universities and ...

The survey showed a hung parliament would be the most likely outcome if the poll numbers were to be replicated at an election ...

Australia is one step closer to transitioning away from fossil fuels after major tax incentives for clean energy passed the ...

Islamic Council of Victoria spokesman Adel Salman said the political defence should never have been dropped from the ...

Mr Samaras said the only “silver lining for Labor” was that the Liberal Party was disliked more in ... chief political analyst at the Australia Institute. Australia Institute chief political ...