Peter Dutton’s major home ownership offer to Australian voters would actually drive up house prices and slash home ownership, ...

As political parties gear up for a federal election campaign that could begin as soon as March 10, the Conservatives appear ...

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 ...

Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming has hit back at “uninformed and unfair” criticism from a senior party colleague while ...

A doctor has been dumped as a NSW by-election candidate just three days after being preselected, but his party has refused to ...

Offshore wind is proving a key challenge for the government, with hecklers interrupting the prime minister's announcement of Labor's new candidate in the Illawarra.

South Australia's largest seat only has two candidates as the federal election nears, with an independent joining the race.

The Conservative Party swept every Saskatchewan riding in the last federal election. Freeland, who was born and raised in neighbouring Alberta, said the next Liberal leader will need to work hard to ...

The new election-spending limit for a political party is $90 million, but it’s just $800,000 for a single MP. Might ...

A former police officer and tourism operator will take on Father of the House Bob Katter in the looming federal election, vowing to “fix the Bruce Highway”.

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