MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s rival political leaders offered Sunday competing policies to help Australians buy a home ahead of the nation’s first federal election in which younger voters ...

With the Australian federal election a week away, for those interested in the democratic shifts that are taking place in the country, the overall result of the election may be less intriguing than the ...

Political parties are integral to the Australian political system, yet also largely absent from the Commonwealth Constitution itself. They are not entirely absent: a constitutional amendment in 1977 – ...

Mark Evans has received funding and in-kind support to complete democratic audits in the United Kingdom (Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust) and Australia (Museum of Australian Democracy at Old ...

Yet again, in what has become a deepening pattern, the Albanese Labor government teamed up with the Liberal-National Coalition last Thursday to push a far-reaching, anti-democratic bill through both ...

On the fraudulent pretext of protecting the electoral system from control by “billionaires,” the Australian Labor government, backed by the Liberal-National Coalition, is seeking to rush through ...

Political influencers on platforms like YouTube and TikTok are already a force likely to shape how elections are covered, even if they don’t swing votes. Online influencers might not change the way ...