The Latest Breaking News from Gough Whitlam

Media Monsters, by Sally Young, is indispensable for anyone interested in the dynamics that drive Australian politics.

Carl Sagan said that in order to understand the present, it’s necessary to know the past. Nowhere does this apply with greater force than to the Australian media and its place in the nation’s power structure.

In a television interview with Phillip Adams in 1999, Paul Keating remarked that he retained much influence on the international stage.

Entertainer whose outrageous caricatures Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson took the one-man show to new heights

These experts say Medicare is at breaking point and it's time for major reform.

Indigenous leader Yunupingu is being remembered as a great Australian, a statesman, a remarkable artist and a national treasure.

Saturday's Aston by-election looms as a yet another test of the Liberal Party's increasingly fragile position in Australian politics, and for its leader

Australia’s history of women and political rights is, to put it mildly, chequered. It enfranchised (white) women very early, in 1902. And it was the first country to give them the vote combined with the right to stand for parliament.

When Dominic Perrottet gave a gracious concession speech after his defeat in the New South Wales election on Saturday night, it was hard to avoid favourable comparison with the United States. There was no sign of rancour or hyper-partisanship. He praised Labor’s Chris Minns for a clean campaign. He predicted…