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

Donald Trump’s steel and aluminium tariffs have been branded inside the US Congress as a “completely needless … insult” to ...

The Australian Senate has passed the Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credit and Other Measures) Bill 2024.

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As the 2025 election fever kicks up, billionaire Clive Palmer has re-entered the political race with a new party that is ...

The Reserve Bank governor said one of the reasons the board cut the cash rate this week was because it did not want to be too ...

New hate speech laws have passed the House of Representatives after the government agreed to introduce mandatory minimum sentences for certain offences. Political reporter Olivia Caisley has more.

Clive Palmer has lost his High Court bid to re-register the United Australia Party for this year's federal election, meaning ...

The Morrison government appointed Johnson in 2016 and renewed his term in 2021. He was described by a Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia judge last year as having a “ close and detailed ...

The Western Australian election will be held on March 8. Our constitution states federal elections must be held within 68 ...