Politics & Economy

While we wait for the outcome of the federal election, it’s clear that there’s one group who’ve already lost –...

What a difference a term in politics can make. Three years after Rudd’s Labor swept to victory, Australia has its...

Many farming communities feel Labor and the Coalition offered them nothing in the federal election – but now political attention...

Rob Oakeshott, the independent member for Lyne in northern NSW, has said that a unity government – where Coalition ministers...

In what Bob Brown has called a “Greenslide”, the Greens now hold the balance of power in the senate, and...

“Cliff hanger”, “knife’s edge” and “too close to call” are all terms you would have heard a lot if you...

This weekend the Queensland seat of Longman fell to Wyatt Roy, the youngest Australian to be elected to parliament. A...

Over the past few weeks Australians have been overwhelmed with the major parties campaigns to ‘stop the boats’, ‘fix the...

This is our last week in the lead up to Election 2010. Nic Christensen, The Wire’s political editor, gives a...

In the mad dash to the finish, candidates are doing all they can to garner the most votes, before the...