The koala was officially declared endangered in the Australian state of New South Wales in February 2022. A year later, the ...

An unusual series of military exercises by Chinese warships in the sea between Australia and New Zealand has prompted ...

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

The country is hosting a major international cricket tournament for the first time in a generation. It's a much-needed bright ...

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

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 ...

With a federal election on the horizon, could Western Australia's upcoming election signal a broader political shift?

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 ...

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 ...

Former opposition leader Bill Shorten has welcomed the decision of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to ...

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

A multinational petroleum giant has received approval to drill up to six exploratory gas wells in the Otway Basin, near ...