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

Billionaire Clive Palmer is set to announce his new political party, Trumpet of Patriots, with initial campaign material ...

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

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 ...

Labor leads the Liberals by just 593 votes on a two-party-preferred basis, having recorded a majority of the 2,300 postal votes added to the count on Thursday. The Liberal Party has yet to concede ...

Former Northern Territory federal politician and Christmas and Cocos Keeling Islands Administrator Natasha Griggs has replaced Shane Stone as Country Liberal Party president.

You can say what you like about Australians in the polling booth - but at least they are fair. Case in point: PMs who break election promises are distrusted by voters regardless of which major party ...

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

The One Nation leader says asked the former Nationals leader to join her party after he was filmed mumbling obscenities while lying on a Canberra street.

On Saturday Libby Mettam said the state’s hospital facilities had been shamefully neglected. From local councils to sporting ovals and the steps of parliament, the Welcome to Country ceremony ...

In fact, former Liberal PM Malcolm Fraser wrote a book not long before ... Zac Gillies-Palmer is a former Australian Labor Party research officer.