Elections

Six months out from the state election, Victoria had no rules governing donations due to the High Court finding in April that the laws were unconstitutional.

New documents suggest South Australia's inaugural Voice to Parliament election was hamstrung by advertising failures that left First Nations voters confused or unaware an election was taking place.

The One Nation leader, whose popularity has soared in the past 12 months, would be the first to say she doesn't put too much stock in the numbers.

The Liberal Party has quietly published a paper that floats offering a cut price $10 digital membership to join the party, in an effort to offset its declining numbers.

A finance executive has been fined $30,000 over unauthorised pamphlets that targeted the Wentworth MP in the lead up to the federal election.

Sir George Grey was the former governor of South Australia and is remembered as a "bundle of contradictions" in both Australia and New Zealand, where he played a key role in the Māori wars. But amid calls for the seat that bears his name to be renamed, who was Grey? 

The next opportunity to test support for One Nation in Western Sydney will be the state election on March 13. Already, disillusioned Labor voter Silvana Rota is ready to "give them a go".

With the rise of One Nation's popularity and younger voters increasingly turning to the Greens, the traditional two-party system in Australian politics has been dismantled, a former political strategist argues. 

Voters in the region of Andalusia have sent the ruling Spain's Socialists yet another warning, adding to concerns Pedro Sánchez's government could suffer an electoral wipe-out in a nationwide vote.

How Prime Minister Narendra Modi is turning India into a one-party nation.

Labor and the Coalition are both acutely mindful of One Nation's rise and its determination to take a decisive role in a future conservative government.

Sir Keir Starmer is striking a defiant tone despite a growing number of his Labour colleagues urging him to step down.

The British prime minister is fighting to fend off a growing threat to his leadership after a disastrous set of local election results last week.

One Nation's Barnaby Joyce says potential candidates for Western Sydney were first and second-generation Australians, but an analyst calls him a "great media performer".

The heat is on in Farrer ahead of Saturday's by-election while in Canberra the prime minister has gone above and beyond with a gift for Japan's leader.

Mamata Banerjee was once considered a threat to India's Narendra Modi. But now, her historic defeat due to "misrule" has the Indian Opposition in tatters.

Nearly three decades after One Nation's shock breakthrough in Queensland, Pauline Hanson's party is again within reach of a significant political victory.

One Nation election advertising stating the party's support for Ben Roberts-Smith, who is charged with carrying out war crimes in Afghanistan, has legal experts worried.

The first electoral test for both new coalition party leaders, Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan, sees the opposition at serious risk of losing Farrer for the first time since the seat was created in 1949.

Residents' groups across Victoria have formed an alliance ahead of the state election, calling for the community and councils to be given a voice when it comes to approving high-density housing.