The 50th national conference of the Australian Labor Party, held from Thursday to Saturday at the Adelaide Convention Centre, was possibly the most stage-managed and tightly controlled in its history.

South Australia’s state election was another marker of a breakdown of the two-party system, of a political vacuum amid widespread discontent and of the rise, within that context, of far-right forces.

Canberra plans to cap net migration at 225,000 and stop visa hopping as a housing crisis and the far-right One Nation party ...

Australia’s major political parties are confronting a surge in support for the right-wing populist One Nation party. One Nation is trading on political anxieties about the impact of high migration ...

The far-right One Nation party has secured its first lower-house seat in the state parliament of Western Australia, defeating the ruling Labor Party to win a special election.

The Malinauskas Labor government has recorded a landslide win in the South Australian state election, and is on track to win 31 of 47 seats in the state’s lower house, the House of Assembly. At this ...

SYDNEY, July 28 (Reuters) - Australia's Victoria state gained a new premier on Tuesday after the centre-left Labor Party chose Ben Carroll as ‌its new leader in the state, preparing for a November ...

As Labor parliamentarians fled Canberra late this week for their long winter break, they could reassure themselves the bruises sustained in a difficult budget session were fading. Broken promises ...