Australia: Socialist Equality Party challenges decision to deny it ballot status
The SEP has formally challenged and launched a public campaign against the Australian Electoral Commission’s rejection of our ...
National Party says Warwick Yonge was never endorsed as Port Macquarie by-election candidate
Nationals leader Dugald Saunders, deputy Gurmesh Singh and Nationals state and federal MPs from across the state's Mid North Coast presented Warwick Yonge to a media con ...
Here’s why Chinese warships near Australia and New Zealand have prompted alarm
An unusual series of military exercises by Chinese warships in the sea between Australia and New Zealand has prompted ...
As it happened: Labor cautiously welcomes interest rate cut; Clive Palmer launches new political party named ‘Trumpet of Patriots’
Billionaire Clive Palmer misspoke and called his party the “Trumpet of Parrots” before correcting himself in the press ...
Australia PM Albanese's approval hits lowest as voters eye change, survey shows
The survey showed a hung parliament would be the most likely outcome if the poll numbers were to be replicated at an election ...
Splits, fusions and evolutions: how Australia’s political parties took hold
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.
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Clive Palmer announces new political party, Trumpet of Patriots
The mining magnate said his new Donald Trump-inspired political party would “Make Australia Great Again” and “drain the swamp in Canberra”. The mining magnate is the chairman of his new ...
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Australia’s govt makes A$8.5bil healthcare pledge
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor party is seeking re-election amid sagging popularity and polls showing voters want a change of government.