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

When South Australian Liberal MP Tim Whetstone faced a challenge to his candidacy, the decision came down to just a few ...

When young women supported the teals at the last federal election, some of their former Liberal-voting fathers swung behind ...

Fissures have emerged within the Liberal ... a slight to the party’s most senior woman. Mr Dutton on Tuesday was forced to defend his record in promoting women after The Australian Financial ...

The upgrade of thousands of Smartrider readers to allow for credit card and mobile phone payments was announced in September ...

You don’t become a plutocrat of modern American capitalism without knowing all the right things to say in the public square. Among the managerial and strategic skills and others needed to get to the ...

A loophole in the Electoral Act means it’s perfectly legal to lie to voters – as long as it doesn’t happen during official ...

The new legislation, in which Albanese agreed to include draconian mandatory jail terms, is a serious threat to anti-genocide ...

Australian governments, mostly led by the Labor Party, together with the entire ... Kershaw’s remarks had an inevitably inflammatory effect, with Liberal-National figures and the Murdoch press ...

In Australia, the Right-wing Liberal-National coalition has pulled ahead in the polls before an election this year. Last year, Japan’s Right-wing Liberal Democratic Party lost its majority ...

“‘Democracy’ gives us a system of parliamentary sovereignty, of law, of regulation. It recognises that our common humanity ...

The start-up has rocketed to the top of app store charts globally, but there are fears that users are handing over sensitive ...