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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

Melbourne suburbs Werribee and Prahran have seen the Liberal party secure a major election victory, as the Green concede. Traditionally Labor 'heartland', Werribee has been an uninterrupted seat since ...

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

Rio Tinto (down 1.2 per cent), BHP (down 1 per cent) and Fortescue (1.5 per cent) deepened their losses at the end of ...

Federal Labor has the same lessons to learn as Victorian Labor following two state by-elections, a former Victorian Labor ...