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 ...

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

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 ...

It has also sparked an upsurge in speculation as to whether democracy is dying, in recession or crisis. So how does Australia compare with this global pattern? The findings of the New Democratic ...

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.

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

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

While the flame of bipartisanship still flickers, hope remains that lies, greed and moral relativism might not destroy our foundations.