You’re going to be hearing a lot from the two biggest parties in Australian politics over the next few weeks. So, as the campaign ramps up, political reporter Claudia Long is getting back to basics ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pauline Hanson, founder and leader of Australia's right-wing populist One Nation party [Getty Images] Thirty years ago, against ...

When political parties consider potential Indigenous candidates, they often worry about voter backlash. It’s a concern rooted in Australia’s troubling history of racism and the ongoing discrimination ...

Another Australian federal election is happening on Saturday (May 3), and the country's political parties are in the midst of sharing their plans and goals for various sectors, including the mining ...

The Grattan Institute began with contributions to its endowment of $15 million from each of the Federal and Victorian Governments, $4 million from BHP Billiton, and $1 million from NAB. In order to ...

Over 35 human rights organizations on Friday issued an open letter, addressed to the leaders of Australia’s three major political parties, urging them to foster a “civil and respectful discourse” on ...

The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) last week held public meetings in four key working-class electorates where it is running in the May 3 federal election. The party’s candidates addressed the meetings ...

Sky News Business Editor Ross Greenwood discusses the “tens of billions” in spending by Australian political parties during the federal election campaign. “It just seems to me right now both sides are ...