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Australian senator Lidia Thorpe tore up a copy of a motion censuring her for protesting against King Charles during his October visit when she accused him of genocide against Indigenous [...]

Australia's Senate has voted to censure Indigenous lawmaker Lidia Thorpe after she (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/21/king-charles-heckled-by-indigenous-lawmaker-on-australia-visit) heckled Britain's King Charles III during his visit to parliament last month. The vote, led by Australia's [...]

Australia's two major political parties will more than double their public funding at the 2028 federal election to reap a combined $140m under the government's proposed changes to electoral laws, [...]

Byline: Gabrielle Chan The state of democracy has understandably been getting a lot of press lately, as the US election campaign enters its final hours. It is a long way [...]

Byline: Rafqa Touma and Luca Ittimani For half an hour, the 30 Australians gathered in a North Sydney pub moved in unison with their counterparts in Palm Beach, Florida. When [...]

Byline: Mike Hohnen Welcome, readers, to Afternoon Update. The United States election is in full swing. North Carolina became the first battleground state in the US to be called, and [...]

Image:https://michaelwest.com.au/tapping-into-the-trump-self-destructive-american-poison/us-elction/ Caption:Australian fascination with US election. Image: AAP There is something rather like irony for both parties in this omnishambles US election: whichever one loses, it will be all their [...]

Byline: Amanda Meade Media correspondent Nine's 2GB radio host Ben Fordham has pulled out of a Liberal party fundraiser in Kirribilli, saying he did not realise the event was raising [...]

Byline: Judith Brett What would Robert Menzies think of today's Liberal party as it celebrates 80 years since its founding in 1944? His first reaction would be pleasure that it [...]

Good morning. With the US election just two days away, Donald Trump's staff are said to be feeling confident about his chances, even though the polls show him and Kamala [...]

Image:https://michaelwest.com.au/polls-narrow-but-lnp-favoured-to-beat-labor-amid-queensland-election-shenanigans/miles-2/ Caption:Stephen Miles with baby, Queensland Election. Photo: AAP More stunts than policies from the LNP as Queenslanders head to the polls this weekend in what appears a fairly sure [...]

Byline: Karen Middleton Political editor When politicians start talking about abortion law, it's often more about the politics than the law. When this occurs in the heat of an election [...]

Byline: Bob Brown Australia is a nation with no treaty or agreement with the people dispossessed by its invasion and colonisation. Senator Lidia Thorpe's challenge to King Charles on Aboriginal [...]

Byline: Karen Middleton and Josh Butler Senior Coalition women have rebuked Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's comments about abortion, saying the Liberal party had 'no interest in unwinding women's reproductive rights' and [...]

Byline: Ben Raue While the Liberal party managed to hold on to two of the three seats holding byelections yesterday, it was undoubtedly a bad result and a disappointment, with [...]

Byline: Nino Bucci and Sharlotte Thou The new government threw barbs at 'do-gooders down south', accused former chief ministers of gaslighting Territorians, and one MP even used the term 'intergenerational [...]

Byline: Karen Middleton Man buys house. Big deal. That's the end-of-week take among some in the upper quarters of the Labor party on the prime minister's decision to buy a [...]

Byline: Nick Squires THE prime minister of Australia has been accused of 'diabolical optics' for buying a PS2.2 million cliff-top villa while the country is in the grip of a [...]

Byline: Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter The incoming Northern Territory government has followed through on an election commitment to tackle a 'crime crisis' by urgently introducing laws to lower [...]

Byline: By, Russell Myers The King's historic first visit to Australia as its head of state has been branded 'The Farewell Oz Tour' by republicans. Charles and wife Camilla arrive [...]

Byline: Adeshola Ore Ousted Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming received voicemail messages from people 'looking for a Nazi', suggesting that she 'kill herself' and telling her to 'move in with [...]

Byline: Karen Middleton The former Northern Territory Labor attorney general Chansey Paech has accused the new Country Liberal party government of planning to introduce a set of tough law-and-order measures [...]

Byline: Alan Vaarwerk Good afternoon. The former Labor turned crossbench senator Fatima Payman has launched a new political party, which she has described as being 'for the disenfranchised, the unheard [...]

Byline: Paul Karp Chief political correspondent Fatima Payman's chief of staff has encouraged speculation the Western Australian senator will create a political party to run Senate candidates including in other [...]

Byline: Catie McLeod Libertarians who fear 'smart cities' technology will be used to curtail freedoms have been elected to councils across New South Wales after the Liberal party failed to [...]

Byline: Adam Morton Climate and environment editor The Western Australian Labor government has been accused of shelving plans to introduce climate change laws before a state election next March after [...]