Australia politics

Australia needs all the tools of statecraft it can muster, especially diplomacy.

If Australia’s Liberal Party is in decline, does this mean that the Labor Party is in ascendency?

What saves political parties is their ability to adapt, but the aggressive populism that has saved conservative parties elsewhere has limited appeal in Australia.

To resist bullying is only “hawkish” if you sympathize with the bullies.

It turns out the protection of liberal democracy doesn't need to be passionate and stirring; it may instead just need to be temperate and competent. 

Albanese wants an Australian president to replace the British monarch as the nation’s head of state. But he has brushed off questions about creating an Australian republic since the queen’s death.

The wider reckoning about Morrison’s misdeeds, and how he came to rise to the heights of power in the first place, is going to be deeply uncomfortable.

While serving as prime minister, Scott Morrison also secretly appointed himself to five ministerial roles – without telling even the existing ministers.

Sydney has the second least affordable housing market in the world, and it’s not much better elsewhere in the country.

What explains Queensland's unique -- and divergent -- political choices at the state and federal levels?

Preferential voting has been harnessed effectively to create a change that invested actors – in major political parties and the media – find disconcerting.