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 ...

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.

Australia's Labor government on Saturday promised an extra A$8.5 billion ($5.4 billion) for the country's universal ...

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

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

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 been shaken by ... Antisemitic attacks have led national news and prompted daily questions for Albanese — and claims of inaction from his main political opponent, Liberal party leader ...

Joining Rinehart in making donations to Australia’s two largest political parties - the center-left Labor Party and the Liberal National Coalition - were pro-Trump billionaire Anthony Pratt ...

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 splintering of Australia extends to federal politics, with the rise of independents and the Greens. But the end of the two-party duopoly has not made national life any less schismatic.

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 ...