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?
It appears to have become more prevalent, visible, and possibly also more politicised in post-pandemic times, as general trust in governments and mainstream media declines.
Existing research evidence suggests the hegemony of neoliberal measures within Australian welfare policy has resulted in higher, not lower, levels of social and economic injustice.
A new survey finds Australians care deeply about the environment, but many aren’t aware of the full extent of biodiversity loss.
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has kept poverty and inequality on the policy agenda.
The Australian Greens, rather than the Labor Party, have emerged as the champions of the contemporary Australian welfare state.
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.
The high level of poverty in affluent Australia is a national disgrace, and its prevention should be a priority for all political parties. But it’s not.
There’s a crisis in women’s safety, but the budget commitments are piecemeal – and some aren’t even new.
Victoria’s Labor Party flipped and flopped in its support of Melbourne’s first medically supervised injecting room, depending on what was politically expedient and popular at the time.
What conditions give rise to so many people effectively consenting to large-scale harm within a democracy?
Many of them are voting for the first time in the upcoming federal election, but they're not the homogeneous group we often assume them to be.
In the wake of the UN's groundbreaking drug policy commitment, the time is right for drug laws reform.
This year's antics in Canberra can be the only reason for the massive defeat for Matthew Guy's opposition.
An independent police complaints system is long overdue in Victoria but is it enough to make police accountable and to address the fear and cynicism towards the force in some parts of the community?
Anna Burke has represented unions and employers, contested (and won) six federal elections, and made politicians of all stripes behave in her role as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Melbourne’s defective city democracy is on show again with an election for lord mayor following the forced resignation of Robert Doyle.
Is the climate right for the Greens to finally win the seat they came so close to winning in recent elections?
Disadvantage predicts the extent of poker machine losses far more in the Apple Isle than in other Australian states and territories.
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