Australia’s ruling Labor Party now finds itself directly under threat from the country’s insurgent nationalist party, One ...

The most striking example of performance politics in Joshua Black’s entertaining book comes when an audience member at a 2010 taping of the now-defunct ABC show Q&A throws a shoe at former prime ...

It’s not her first time interrogating big business — expect more questions on the profits the banks make off home loans.

A sleepy suburban seat in the outer suburbs of Perth called Secret Harbour, one that has voted Labor for virtually its entire history, swung firmly toward the opposite end of the political spectrum ...

News24 host Chris Kenny examines the extraordinary rise of One Nation and warns the surge is raising serious questions about ...

Australia has spent a quarter of a century selling the world a simple idea: crack down on boats at the border, and people ...

Political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to the CEO of the Grattan Institute Dr Aruna Sathanapally and economics editor Patrick Commins about this week’s politics and policy debates over new datacentres, W ...

The election of Donald Trump to serve another term as president of the United States is sending most countries scrambling to understand the implications for their foreign policies. With Australia’s ...

The overall tone of a parliamentary session I attended during a recent visit was kind, even jovial. It reminded me that we ...

As the announcement of an Australian federal election looms, the Labor government and opposition Liberal-National Coalition have been trading blows over the presence of three Chinese warships in ...

Expats, politics and culture: our essays illustrate the nature of the country they concern. Read on to find out what makes Australia a harmonious land of contradictions. Expats, politics and culture: ...

When political parties consider potential Indigenous candidates, they often worry about voter backlash. It’s a concern rooted in Australia’s troubling history of racism and the ongoing discrimination ...