In Australia, well-connected lobbyists ... That’s a broken system. Trump suggests it is possible to “buy” political access and influence through political donations. Similarly, managing ...

The 2019 Australian federal election is just around the corner when we will elect members of the 46th Parliament of Australia. Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and ...

Many members of the country's booming Chinese and South Asian migrant communities are keen to engage in the democratic system but do not fully understand how the Australian political system works ...

This will make the most influential actor of the election not any party or party leader, but Australia ... this system has provided oxygen to a number of different political forces, but has ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We have a distrustful and disillusioned electorate, a professionalised political system that, however, frequently alienates the sort ...

in a system dominated by parties and especially by the competition of two major parties – Labor and Liberal – the document formally establishing Australia’s federal political system was ...

Australia may have two dominant political blocs — the Labor Party and the permanent coalition between the Liberal and National parties — but there has always been enough oxygen in the system ...

Australia boasts some of the world’s most sophisticated political institutions and one ... 2025 due to the country’s preferential voting system.” Australia’s electoral system uses a ...

multicultural Australia. He even lost his own seat. His successor as party leader is Sussan Ley, the first woman in that role, who has to take on the task of rebuilding a shell-shocked political ...