The challenge presented to Australia by the second Trump presidency is about more than foreign policy and defence, and the ...

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

With the latest national curriculum testing showing the lowest levels of civics on record, and a parliamentary inquiry ...

The latest results come amid a loss of faith in democracy and political institutions, rising antisemitic attacks and a ...

Federal parliament has passed the biggest changes to Australias electoral funding laws in decades. The Albanese governments ...

Australia’s social cohesion is eroding, according to a sobering intelligence assessment that also warned of growing foreign interference and espionage.

Australia has vowed to protect its people and democracy, after the nation's spy chief laid bare security threats and cases of ...

Question time in the lower house is not always parliamentary democracy at its best. Nor is there anything wrong with the content of existing tests, as far as they go. As the Australian Historical ...

Mining magnate Clive Palmer has launched a new political party, drawing on the policies of Donald Trump and pledging to ...

The Albanese Government and the Opposition have come together to condemn Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion.

Australia was a striking incarnation of modern social organisation. It was historically perhaps the most developed instance of the harnessing of democracy with bureaucracy, for two reasons.