IT’S early morning and I have just been woken by a pair of cackling kookaburras. The sky is cloudless blue and the temperature is already in the twenties. I’m in Australia, a nation of immigrants, ...

Labor has outpaced the Coalition with a rush of advertisements reflecting the belief that voters’ views on Peter Dutton are still evolving and a negative campaign will work in the government’s favour.

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton’s path to election victory will be determined by cashed-up campaigns waged by Advance and ...

G’day readers and welcome to this week’s edition of Feeding the Chooks, your guide to what’s really going on in Queensland ...

I’m driving about an hour north of inner city Brisbane, where suburbs give way to rolling hills and through the sort of ...

DEAR, THE Port Macquarie byelection has echoes of the southern NSW federal seat of Farrer, previously held by Nationals’ ...

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

Under the fraudulent banner of combatting antisemitism, Labor MP Josh Burns last week demanded that Sydney’s Macquarie ...

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.

With an abundance of caution, the Albanese government would do best to assume it was being given a substantial kick after the ...

Nuclear engineer and former Miss America Grace Stanke has entered the fierce debate in Australia over its future energy ...