Australia no longer makes much of anything at all — and the few industries we do have left are rapidly circling the drain.

MPs discussed online harm and the safety of public figures in a panel at Parliament this week. Why has it worsened and what ...

A total 126 prisoners failed to return to jail while on temporary release last year, Extra.ie can reveal. Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín, obtained figures revealing that 702 prisoners were ‘unlawfully at ...

Independent MP for Kooyong Monique Ryan vows to introduce a bill to parliament aimed at lowering the minimum voting age, ...

The submission covers human rights concerns monitored by Human Rights Watch, including treatment of asylum seekers, Indigenous peoples’ rights, children’s rights, disability rights, older persons ...

Residents have given powerful testimony condemning the destruction of their homes, but the overall thrust of the inquiry is ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has pledged to lead an overhaul of Australia’s tax system that will include lower income taxes but no changes to the GST, as he admitted taxes overall would probably need ...

Coalition split indicative of global trend in Western two-party systems The Coalition split has disastrously fractured Australian politics and put at risk the viability of the two-party political ...

Does Australia’s voting system suck? Yes! It doesn’t reflect voter sentiment More substantively, the advantages of fairness claimed for the system come at a substantial cost in accountability.

The context in Australia is not the same, with a different parliamentary system, state governments, a transferable vote system, mandatory voting, and a different media landscape.

Australia has a preferential voting system, which means voters will need to rank all the candidates on the ballot according to their preference. Over 300 candidates from about three dozen political ...

A new report outlines the importance of strengthening civics education in Australia. Recently an Australian parliamentary inquiry from the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters published ...