Charlotte Walker has made history. With huge challenges facing young people, better youth representation in politics is just ...

Australian author Michelle de Kretser described feeling afraid of speaking publicly about the conflict in Gaza as she ...

His successor as party leader is Sussan Ley, the first woman in that role, who has to take on the task of rebuilding a ...

Icon has partnered with the Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD) to launch Question of the Day, a creative campaign aimed at ...

While Australia's electoral institutions are among the best in the world – like an independent electoral commission, Saturday ...

Australians have an unusual habit of celebrating public policies that the rest of the world politely declines to imitate. It ...

Or, as a website tracking real-time, crowd-sourced democracy sausage locations on polling day notes: “It’s practically part of the Australian Constitution.” But the tradition is far from ...

Enjoying a sausage – or ‘sag’ as it is known in Aussie slang – after casting your vote has become a beloved Australian ...

"I missed out today but my daughter got a democracy cupcake - does that count?" Meanwhile, at polling booths near Australia's famed beaches, including Bondi, some swimmers cast their ballots after ...

Or, as a website tracking real-time, crowd-sourced democracy sausage locations on polling day notes: “It’s practically part of the Australian Constitution.” But the tradition is far from ...