Before you head to the polls at the federal election, here's a quick breakdown of how the Australian political system works ...

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The Australian Senate has passed the Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credit and Other Measures) Bill 2024.

Clive Palmer has lost his High Court bid to re-register the United Australia Party for this year's federal election, meaning ...

Donald Trump’s steel and aluminium tariffs have been branded inside the US Congress as a “completely needless … insult” to ...

For once, in this parliament, it seemed the government was not just sitting like a hapless duck in the crosshairs of a ...

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

New hate speech laws have passed the House of Representatives after the government agreed to introduce mandatory minimum ...

A Parliamentary inquiry that heard evidence of rising worker surveillance, excessive data collection and unfair automated ...

With the end of the three-year federal government term rapidly approaching, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese could call an ...

A federal parliamentary committee inquiry has undertaken extensive consultation with stakeholders including local governments, councils and shires ...

She apologised on Sunday after revelations she sent a driver on a 446-kilometre round-trip from Sydney to chauffeur her and a ...