The Albanese government has passed a ban on the controversial trade in the last state still doing it: WA. Could it dent Labor ...

IT’S early morning and I have just been woken by a pair of cackling kookaburras. The sky is cloudless blue and the temperature is already in the twenties. I’m in Australia, a nation of immigrants, ...

The AFL season kicks off on March 6. When will Seven start mentioning one particular star member of its commentary line-up?

For those counting, the billionaire mining magnate and major political donor is now 0-5 before the High Court.

Housing Minister Rose Jackson and a high-profile passenger took her taxpayer-funded car to the pop superstar’s show last year ...

Palmer labelled the electoral act “Draconian and unconstitutional”, arguing that it breaches the implied freedom of political ...

Supporters of Israel have ready access to mainstream media. The object of their devotion and of its actions bear no resemblance to reality.

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

Today in Tips and Murmurs, Pauline Hanson calls for hard-working Aussie families to be deported, and we look back at when the ABC actually stood by its journos.

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 ...

It's been another day of health announcements dominating the state election campaign... with Labor following the Liberals' lead on some policies. The Greens have launched their upper-house campaign ...

A new politically loaded T-shirt made its national debut at chief minister Lia Finocchiaro’s Year of Action speech in Darwin ...