As federal polling day neared on May 3 2025, the ground was silent but the people of Australia stirred, some restless with ...

Jim Chalmers has started his second term as treasurer just like the first one ended: trying to frame the budget on his terms, ...

From a foreign policy perspective, 2025 was defined by successive shocks for Australia. The increasingly rancorous and intolerant political climate in Washington DC and across the US this year has ...

Exactly a month ago, I was driving down a long, empty stretch of road in eastern Australia, swerving around kangaroo carcasses and listening on the radio to Prime Minister Julia Gillard give a policy ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament resumed Tuesday for the first time since the center-left Labor Party won one of the nation’s largest-ever majorities in the May elections. The day ...

The Labor Party's landslide victory at the polls in 2025 was shaped by several factors, including a clear advantage on policy issues, the relative popularity of Anthony Albanese and strong support ...

Anthony Albanese is set to become the first Australian prime minister in 21 years to lead a political party to two consecutive election victories, based on early vote counting. The last was John ...

From election outcomes and visa hikes to reform milestones and sector soul-searching, these are the stories that sum up the ...

But the growing draw of Ms Hanson’s party also relates to dysfunction and infighting inside Australia’s centre-right opposition, which is making it harder for more sophisticated diagnoses of Australia ...