McKinnon has launched the McKinnon Index, the first national tool to track the quality of our democracy and the effectiveness ...

Here are six ways that Australian politics looks very different to how it did when Gough Whitlam was Prime Minister in ...

Australia’s first election day ended in violence and riots, including in Sydney and Melbourne. Police and soldiers struggled to control drunken mobs armed with staves and pickets who tore down banners ...

For Greek Australians, the dismissals of George Papandreou and Gough Whitlam reveal how fragile parliamentary democracy ...

The Australian Greens say a new report showing a collapse in confidence in democracy is a consequence of a system that is increasingly closed, captured by corporate interests, and leaving young and ...

The powerful didn’t like protests in the nineteenth century and they like them even less in the twenty-first. But that only makes struggle against injustice more necessary. (Photo by Recep Sakar / ...

Liam Flenady is the Socialist Alliance candidate for the Brisbane seat of Griffith and a member of Resistance. This is an extract from a talk he gave to a forum titled: “People and planet before ...

An exhibition about a Chinese emperor who died 22 centuries ago is more topical than it may appear at first sight. In the ...

While Sussan Ley’s leadership is under siege, the women of Australian politics are showing that representation is truly ...

Australia has granted asylum to Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Ted Hui, he said in a social media post, a move likely to raise tensions with China. Mr Hui, a former Hong Kong parliamentarian, fled ...