The first leaders’ debate for the May 3 Australian federal election summed up the official campaign as a whole. On the part of Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition and the corporate media, it is an ...

News24 host Sharri Markson discusses former prime minister John Howard’s rejection of Pauline Hanson’s call for a monoculture ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Senator Jacqui Lambie, left, gestures as she speaks to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong during debate in the Senate chamber ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday waded in to a debate over the use of portable cabanas to reserve prime spots on the nation's beaches, saying the practice was ...

Australia’s election campaign continues to roll along, pitting Opposition Leader Peter Dutton of the Liberals against current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of the Labor Party. In the leaders’ third ...

The 2022 news that the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion sent shockwaves around the world. For Australian opponents of abortion who had long ...

Australia's adversarial two-party system is stifling democratic reform, making the case for proportional representation ...

Senator Jacqui Lambie, left, gestures as she speaks to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong during debate in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024.

MELBOURNE, Australia — The Australian Senate on Thursday began considering a ban on children younger than 16 years old from social media after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly supported the ...