In small towns across Australia, the lack of funding for infrastructure like sewerage, water supply and power is holding back ...

The New Zealand government is to introduce legislation allowing four-year political terms. Under the proposed changes, a ...

President Trump said Monday that there was “no room left for Mexico or for Canada” to avoid the steep new tariffs.

When President Trump speaks to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, his words are bound to be far different from the ...

Australians are set for a general election within the next two months that will likely trigger substantial changes to ...

The koala was officially declared endangered in the Australian state of New South Wales in February 2022. A year later, the ...

An unusual series of military exercises by Chinese warships in the sea between Australia and New Zealand has prompted ...

With a new poll showing that the majority of West Australians support lifting the state's ban on uranium mining, Australia's ...

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer launched on Wednesday a political party he said was directly inspired by U.S. President ...

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

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

That bond has endured at the national level, with just occasional breaks, through to today, giving Australia what some have called a two-and-a-half party system. The relationship was not ...