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

The Coalition's promised nuclear power plants could consume three times more water than existing coal sites, posing a ...

Victorians are being told to brace for more heatwave and potential bushfire conditions while blazes in the Grampians and Little Desert National Parks continue to smoulder.

Apartment living is a key pillar of government plans to ease the housing crisis by densifying well-connected parts of ...

Just quietly, I also offer dead sailors drinks and occasionally good books over the side when I am at sea. It is a cross ...

The arrival of hundreds of world-class boats, yachts and other one-of-a-kind marine vessels amid the cool and balmy breezes ...

A South Australian sinkhole, known as the Shaft, was popular with extreme divers until four died underneath the ground due to ...