Australia has been averse to ideological extremes but after two decades of growing inequality and public policy stasis, the country’s robust democratic formula is facing challenges ...

The independent candidate, Michelle Milthorpe, speaks to the political editor, Tom McIlroy, about this Saturday’s byelection in Sussan Ley’s former seat of Farrer ...

By Byron Kaye and Melanie Burton SYDNEY/MELBOURNE, May 7 (Reuters) - A few months before Australia's conservative Liberal Party suffered its worst election defeat last May, Sydney stockbroker Angus ...

Former nursing student Janai Safar, who previously vowed not to return to Australia, will arrive with her 9-year-old son.

The prime minister rejected a campaign to increase taxes on gas exports, but the industry is no fan of the new plan for an east coast reservation scheme.

In Australia’s regional heartland, something unusual is happening, it’s no longer predictable, listening to voters might give ...

After abandoning the Sisyphean task of improving women's lot in the Liberal Party, Charlotte Mortlock has formed, quite ...

This year he is changing teams, committing A$1.1 million (NZ$1.34m) to populist anti-immigration party Pauline Hanson's One ...

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this story includes the name and image of an ...

How the result in Farrer could send shockwaves across nation and dismantle the Coalition.

The four women left Australia to join the Islamic State terrorist group overseas and have spent years with their children in ...

Three women who allegedly supported IS were arrested after they flew home to Australia for the first time in years.