While there have been moves to making voting optional in Australia, voters have consistently expressed their support for it being compulsory.
Why have successive Australian governments found it so difficult to truly embrace the country’s potential to become a clean energy superpower?
Mike McColl Jones began writing comedy in the early 1960s, and for the next 40 years worked continuously at the epicentre of the Australian entertainment industry through the golden age of television.
In assessing Scott Morrison’s prime ministership, several factors need to be taken into account. On many of them, his record is poor.
In less than two years, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has gone from clear choice to fighting for majority support in the polls. What happened?
Not since the infamous ‘Bodyline’ series of the 1930s has cricket been the source of so much tension between Australia and Britain.
As the Voice to Parliament referendum nears, the impact of what’s now known as the Anglosphere continues to have major implications for Australia’s domestic policy settings and institutionalised sense of self.
Like Britain recently, Australia has had more than its share of leadership excesses and upheavals over the past 15 years, but could that phase be passing?
Legislation must be created to ensure that Scott Morrison’s underhanded ministerial power-grab never happens again.
The imminent transition from Elizabeth II to Charles III across the Commonwealth brings with it important political considerations, not least of which is: Should Australia reconsider the place of the monarchy in its own political system?
Australia’s prime ministers in recent years haven’t stayed in office for long. If the Australian public can be patient, Albanese’s style may offer greater longevity.
Unlike many politicians, Anthony Albanese doesn’t appear to harbour a sense of entitlement to the top job – and his journey towards it has been a long one.
Climate change has emerged as a major election issue for voters, but still the major parties are excluding it from their campaign platforms – at their peril.
With marginal seats in play, and the outcome of the previous election to remind us, it’d be foolhardy to write off the Coalition from recording another unexpected result.
Scott Morrison's remarks in response to a question about Will Smith’s Oscars’ slap risk being a dog whistle, fuelling and cultivating a culture of male violence.
Not everyone will be happy with the Australian Republican Movement’s new model, but there are key changes worth looking at.
In a survey sure to provoke debate, 66 political scientists and historians ranked Australia’s WWII prime minister John Curtin as the finest leader we’ve had.
There are three measures for assessing whether public policy is successful, and the Coalition has been found wanting on all three. But there’s one policy area that’s an even bigger disaster.
A senate hearing has produced yet more damning evidence about the ‘car park rorts’ affair.
While Australians demand change, the silence from Canberra on violence against women and gender inequality is a national shame.
There are several past examples of federal cabinet ministers resigning or being sacked over unproven claims that they deny.
Independent political candidates have been rising up against some of Australia’s most conservative MPs, and winning. Could Craig Kelly's seat of Hughes be the next target?
Labor has long been seen as the party of bold policy platforms, while the Coalition has played more of a consolidating role. The next election will determine if those characterisations still hold.
Only 38% of Year 10 students reached the benchmark of knowledge on civics and citizenship required for their year level in 2019.
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