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 index findings show that 66.4 per cent of people in major cities are confident election outcomes are fair, which diminishes to 62.7 per cent in inner regional areas and 52.7 per cent in outer ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Many Australians arriving at polling places on Saturday followed their civic duty by eating what’s become known as a democracy sausage, a cultural tradition as Aussie as ...

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 ...