The industry has been pushing for cuts to excise for decades. With the explosion in illegal cigarette sales, those calls have ...

In September 2001, then Prime Minister John Howard faced two crises, the Tampa affair and the 9/11 terror attacks in Washington, that would define 20 years of Australian immigration politics.

The overall combined primary vote for Australia’s major parties has continued to decline, opening space for independents to make gains. Australia’s recent federal election produced a commanding win ...

Australians today are more multicultural and secular, and less likely to have children, than in the 1940s when the Liberal Party was founded.

Political reporter and live blogger Krishani Dhanji speaks with Essential Media chair Peter Lewis about One Nation’s win at the Western Australian byelection and how Pauline Hanson’s party is tapping ...

Online influencers might not change the way Australians vote in the looming federal election but they’ll almost certainly shape how and why political events become “news.” In a nation where up to 40 ...

A sleepy suburban seat in the outer suburbs of Perth called Secret Harbour, one that has voted Labor for virtually its entire history, swung firmly toward the opposite end of the political spectrum ...

Democracies worldwide are suffering from legitimacy problems. This is reflected in low levels of public trust in key political institutions, the polarisation of politics, and the erosion of public ...

The most striking example of performance politics in Joshua Black’s entertaining book comes when an audience member at a 2010 taping of the now-defunct ABC show Q&A throws a shoe at former prime ...