Politics & Economy

In what Bob Brown has called a “Greenslide”, the Greens now hold the balance of power in the senate, and...

“Cliff hanger”, “knife’s edge” and “too close to call” are all terms you would have heard a lot if you...

This weekend the Queensland seat of Longman fell to Wyatt Roy, the youngest Australian to be elected to parliament. A...

Over the past few weeks Australians have been overwhelmed with the major parties campaigns to ‘stop the boats’, ‘fix the...

This is our last week in the lead up to Election 2010. Nic Christensen, The Wire’s political editor, gives a...

In the mad dash to the finish, candidates are doing all they can to garner the most votes, before the...

Indigenous Australians were under-represented in the 2007 Federal Election in terms of participation. Despite the compulsory voting system. For this...

With an election looming, the argument about compulsory voting has once again resurfaced. So is forcing people to vote going...

At the polling booths apparently most voters will decide to vote above the line, with only a few choosing to...

It has been a fairly policy free election according to critics who accuse both major parties of playing it very...