Australia’s pro-globalisation consensus remains robust despite populist rhetoric. While the political right has grown more ...

For most of our Federation's history, the two-party system has been an efficient organiser of the population. That has all ...

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STORY: This Saturday, millions of young voters will cast their vote, many for the first time, in Australia’s general election. The way they vote will be critical: Millennials and Generation Z voters ...

There has been an insufferable degree of smugness of late in the chatting classes about Australia rsquo;s electoral system .

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's centre-left Labor government is likely to retain power in a close-run national election this weekend, two opinion polls showed on Thursday, with voters ranking U.S.