Australia’s fragile bipartisan consensus on China is beginning to fray, but the differences are largely in tone and rhetoric, not substance. As Australia heads toward the 2025 federal election, cost ...

Following the release of the Albanese government’s second intergenerational report this week, treasurer Jim Chalmers speaks with Guardian Australia’s political editor Tom McIlroy and economics editor ...

The great paradox of Australian politics at the moment is that Australians are by nature a stability seeking people, and this is precisely why the country’s primary conservative party – the Liberal ...

Australia’s migration system must be ‘tight’ without throttling the future ...

Byelections in regional NSW do not usually become national political events. But as voting day approaches in Farrer, the sprawling rural seat has become one of the most closely watched contests in the ...

Over 35 human rights organizations on Friday issued an open letter, addressed to the leaders of Australia’s three major political parties, urging them to foster a “civil and respectful discourse” on ...

Expats, politics and culture: our essays illustrate the nature of the country they concern. Read on to find out what makes Australia a harmonious land of contradictions. Expats, politics and culture: ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called a national election for May 3, seeking a second three-year term for his Labor Party government in a contest set to be dominated by cost-of-living ...

A conference of the Victorian Socialists (VS), the electoral front of the pseudo-left Socialist Alternative (SAlt), ratified a national expansion over the weekend. VS will be renamed “the Socialist ...

Australia’s history is distinct and much contested, stretching from its First Nations origins, to the impacts of colonialism and the birth of a multicultural nation. Former Liberal Prime Minister Tony ...

When political parties consider potential Indigenous candidates, they often worry about voter backlash. It’s a concern rooted in Australia’s troubling history of racism and the ongoing discrimination ...

In September 2001, then Prime Minister John Howard faced two crises, the Tampa affair and the 9/11 terror attacks in Washington, that would define 20 years of Australian immigration politics.