The task ahead for Anthony Albanese in restoring the idea that governments should seek to make the country better

The demise of Morrison’s Liberals paves the way for a transformative parliament

Amid the long decline of the major parties, have independents finally solved the problem of lopsided campaign financing laws?

The seismic shift that saw voters around the country turn on the Coalition and deliver a Labor victory

At the Auburn Hotel on election night, hope coalesces around Monique Ryan

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The new Pacific security pact reflects America’s influence, not Australia’s

Kevin Rudd on China, the US and the forces of history

Since the first human forayed beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, politics has never left space

Caroline Kennedy’s appointment as US ambassador to Australia is a sign of the rising temperature in the Pacific

For the Cold War generation, the threat of nuclear war in Europe brings a familiar dread

What can be done to rectify Australia’s diplomatic ineptitude?

What will it take for Australia to fix the affordable housing crisis?

In withdrawing support for the religious discrimination bill, the Christian right showed what it wanted all along: the freedom to discriminate against others

Premier Steven Marshall claimed South Australia was “COVID-ready” when the state opened borders just as Omicron was emerging, but it now faces the same issues as the eastern states

Ten years after the high-water mark of cooperation between Labor and the Greens, why haven’t the “progressive” parties worked together since then?

Hope is running dry in the Murray–Darling Basin

Flagrant conflicts of interest abound at the top