Australia’s ruling Labor Party now finds itself directly under threat from the country’s insurgent nationalist party, One ...

Australian political journalism too often treats Canberra as a subject to report on rather than an engaged and highly ...

Political reporter and live blogger Krishani Dhanji speaks with Essential Media chair Peter Lewis about One Nation’s win at the Western Australian byelection and how Pauline Hanson’s party is tapping ...

A so-called Australian immigration crisis is a central election issue, but it’s based on misconceptions easily debunked by any examination of the evidence. Immigration has been a pawn for political ...

Australia will cap donations from individuals and enforce greater transparency on contributions as part of a push to reduce the influence of big money in politics, as it tries to head off US-style ...

A sleepy suburban seat in the outer suburbs of Perth called Secret Harbour, one that has voted Labor for virtually its entire history, swung firmly toward the opposite end of the political spectrum ...

Where once a byelection for a state seat would have attracted little national attention, the remaking of the Australian ...

The most striking example of performance politics in Joshua Black’s entertaining book comes when an audience member at a 2010 ...

Democracies worldwide are suffering from legitimacy problems. This is reflected in low levels of public trust in key political institutions, the polarisation of politics, and the erosion of public ...