When politicians act like managers rather than representatives, accountability, transparency and scrutiny suffer.

However the opposition has rejected the move as one of several attempts to give Labor and the Greens an electoral advantage. The joint standing committee on electoral matters, whose report into the ...

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 ...

Tasmania’s business community wants to scrap the state’s electoral system to end entrenched political chaos, as Labor’s new ...

It's been three years since we last voted in a federal election, so you might be a bit rusty on how to fill out your ballot paper. Australia has a preferential voting system, which means you can't ...

It describes changes in other jurisdictions as "rushed, self-interested and poorly justified".The Australia Institute ...

The Socialist Equality Party (Australia) is in the concluding weeks of its campaign to regain official party registration and put a socialist anti-war party on the ballot at the next federal election.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Early voting in the Australian election began on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's centre-left Labor party holding a slim lead over the conservative opposition ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Momentum is building in Australia for electoral change that could see tiny single issue parties blamed for U.S.-style gridlock in the upper house senate squeezed out, clearing the ...