Politics & Economy

In the marginal seat of Boothby in South Australia, three thousand pre-poll votes have been discounted because of evidence of...

Greens leader Bob Brown was always going to be supporting Labor when the call came in for support following this...

As Australia waits for the rural Independents and other cross benchers to decide whether they will support a Labor or...

Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has amended the same sex adoption bill that will be introduced to NSW parliament on...

Australia has finally elected its first Indigenous representative to the House of Representatives. Liberal candidate Ken Wyatt claimed victory in...

Julia Gillard met with the four newly powerful independents today to begin the process of negotiating a deal to form...

While we wait for the outcome of the federal election, it’s clear that there’s one group who’ve already lost –...

What a difference a term in politics can make. Three years after Rudd’s Labor swept to victory, Australia has its...

Many farming communities feel Labor and the Coalition offered them nothing in the federal election – but now political attention...

Rob Oakeshott, the independent member for Lyne in northern NSW, has said that a unity government – where Coalition ministers...