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

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Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

While the world fixates on TikTok and DeepSeek, fearing Chinese overreach, WeChat operates quietly in the background—mostly ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor party is seeking re-election amid sagging popularity and polls showing voters want a change of government.

If Peter Dutton becomes Australia's next prime minister, David Littleproud would be in the running to become his deputy. Here ...

That bond has endured at the national level, with just occasional breaks, through to today, giving Australia what some have called a two-and-a-half party system. The relationship was not ...

Labor and the LNP might be approaching the federal election from diametrically opposite ends of the ideological spectrum on energy, but there is one key battleground where their policies will ...

The survey showed a hung parliament would be the most likely outcome if the poll numbers were to be replicated at an election ...

The mining magnate said his new Donald Trump-inspired political party would “Make Australia Great Again” and “drain the swamp in Canberra”. The mining magnate is the chairman of his new ...

It’s the third day of declines as the market lost 0.7 per cent on Tuesday, when Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock poured ...