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OECD secretary-general Mathias Cormann, Australia’s longest-serving finance minister, has warned Australia is showing ...

The election of Donald Trump to serve another term as president of the United States is sending most countries scrambling to understand the implications for their foreign policies. With Australia’s ...

Australia will cap donations from individuals and enforce greater transparency on contributions as part of a push to reduce the influence of big money in politics, as it tries to head off US-style ...

The political editor, Tom McIlroy, speaks to the assistant minister for science, technology and the digital economy, Andrew Charlton, about this week’s announcement of environmental and energy ...

As flag-bearing Australians marched through cities across the country chanting against mass immigration, some saw it as a sign the far-right movement was gaining traction. But aspiring far-right ...

ANTHONY ALBANESE, Australia’s prime minister, won re-election on May 3rd. This makes him the first leader in 21 years to win consecutive elections, and it is partly because he was buoyed by voters’ ...

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When political parties consider potential Indigenous candidates, they often worry about voter backlash. It’s a concern rooted in Australia’s troubling history of racism and the ongoing discrimination ...

An Australian billionaire who launched a rebranded political party “heavily inspired” by President Donald Trump claimed 10,000 people signed up to join his “Trumpet of Patriots” party on its first day ...

On the evening of December 14, 2025, two gunmen opened fire on a crowd of several hundred people celebrating the first night of Hanukkah at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia. In six minutes and eleven ...