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

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 ...

Australia has dropped its artist for the next Venice Biennale in 2026 after critics dug up some of his controversial early ...

Earlier this year, Ms Mettam became a grandmother when her eldest daughter, Bianca, gave birth to a girl, Remi. Bianca, 25, ...

Victorian Opposition Leader Brad Battin has conceded the Werribee by-election to Labor candidate John Lister after a tight ...

A Tasmanian senator is pushing to have some senior Liberal figures, including the party’s president, become members of a ...

Ahead of the 2025 federal election, news.com.au has the latest politics news and updates on the Liberal National Party and its leader, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

Today in Tips and Murmurs, Pauline Hanson calls for hard-working Aussie families to be deported, and we look back at when the ABC actually stood by its journos.

A senior Liberal has taken a swipe at her newly reinstated party colleague Moira Deeming for jetting off to London to attend a conference led by renowned Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson.

Some polling suggests older Australians are more supportive of nuclear power than their younger counterparts. So why are ...

The two major political parties are determined to dismantle a three-seat inner Brisbane stronghold the Greens sensationally ...

Two by-election results in the Victorian capital of Melbourne have triggered further alarm in ruling circles that the next federal election will produce a fragile minority government.