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

Labor and Coalition MPs have united to call for tougher workplace laws so universities can sack anti-Semitic staff and ...

Independent MP Zali Steggall has crashed a Labor minister’s media appearance to challenge the Albanese government’s political donor reforms.

A man is dead and four people, including two toddlers, have been injured after they were pulled from a burning home in Victoria's north-west.

In Broome, the work of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody uncovers not only personal grief but also the ...

Labor insiders fear that Anthony Albanese is set to lose a minimum of eight to 10 MPs at the federal election plunging Australia into minority government but the silver lining for ALP strategists is ...

In Sydney’s outer suburban hub of Parramatta, an overgrown patch of land sandwiched between the train station and a Westfield ...

The Werribee by-election may be a new low for the major parties. But where are the so-called 'double haters' parking their ...

Throughout History, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference, of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice and good people when it ...

The ADF says a Chinese fighter jet deployed flares near an Australian military plane in the South China Sea. Separately, three Chinese warships in the Coral Sea are being monitored.

Backlash over ‘performative cruelty’ as small boat refugees blocked from gaining citizenship - Criticism comes days after ...