With the Australian federal election a week away, for those interested in the democratic shifts that are taking place in the country, the overall result of the election may be less intriguing than the ...

The political debate about migration often boils down to a numbers game. The question is typically what the precise level should be and the answer depends on who you ask. Clive Palmer says zero.

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 ...

Senator Fatima Payman’s defection over Labor Party policy on statehood for the Palestinians has generated wider discussion about the written and unwritten rules of Australian politics. One of those ...

On the fraudulent pretext of protecting the electoral system from control by “billionaires,” the Australian Labor government, backed by the Liberal-National Coalition, is seeking to rush through ...

I wrote my Boyer lectures between, and sometimes during, the five Test matches of this year’s Ashes series. For my Canadian wife, Gillian, the appeal of cricket is a mystery. She thinks it is merely a ...