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

The Albanese Labor Government is building Australia's future by investing in training, with new data showing there have been more than 3,700 ...

There’s a popular belief that a good leader will win an election for their party, while a bad one will lose it. The numbers ...

Labor appears set to retain the Victorian seat of Werribee, despite a significant decline in voter support in its traditional stronghold in Saturday’s by-election.

Reforms to political donations laws will make it harder for campaign groups to bankroll candidates, but whether the changes ...

There is growing outrage that Abdel-Fattah has been falsely accused of antisemitism, like many other opponents of the intensifying US-backed Israeli mass killings and ethnic cleansing in Palestine.

If politics is show business for ugly people, Canberra proved more community theatre than Hollywood this week as the election looms.

Indi MP Helen Haines, who could become a kingmaker if the federal election returns a hung parliament, will make unpicking a ...

A Teal independent and a Labor minister have clashed in a Parliament House hallway over donor reforms crossbenchers are ...

Politicians have made inflammatory interventions, prejudicing the legal rights of the nurses involved and using their ...

Responding to the late night rushed passage of the Electoral Reform Bill, which every crossbencher opposed and both big parties supported, Greens spokesperson on Democracy, Senator Larissa Waters said ...

Two medical professionals in Australia were suspended from their work at a hospital after they were filmed speaking about not ...