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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Australian Police Minister Dan Cregan is quitting state cabinet, citing "pressing family matters", triggering a reshuffle ahead of his retirement from politics at the next election.

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

The upcoming federal election will see the incumbent Labor prime minister, Anthony Albanese, face off against Liberal ...