Australian political journalism too often treats Canberra as a subject to report on rather than an engaged and highly ...

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

After she was trounced in the Liberal ballot on February 13, outgoing party leader Sussan Ley addressed the media. Her speech was gracious in defeat, but came with an announcement new Liberal leader ...

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

Political inaction and big tech’s reluctance to protect users leave Australians vulnerable to a murky world of digital misinformation going into the election. The rise of “dark advertising” — ...

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 ...

Political reporter and live blogger Krishani Dhanji speaks with Essential Media chair Peter Lewis about One Nation’s win at the Western Australian byelection and how Pauline Hanson’s party is tapping ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Where once a byelection for a state seat would have attracted little national attention, the remaking of the Australian political landscape in recent months has given such contests greater ...

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 ...