As the AEC rushes to implement new changes to donation disclosures, Crikey can reveal that compliance with the current rules is far from perfect.

A by-election was the one thing the AEC didn't need right now. Then Sussan Ley announced she was planning to retire.

The scourge of AI-slopaganda, viral disinformation campaigns and online attacks against individuals and institutions is going to get far worse before it gets better, if the latest public hearings on ...

Real democratic change may not come from louder slogans, but from quietly handing ordinary citizens a formal voice inside the ...

Coal Australia says it has nothing to hide following revelations it provided funding for a group that ran attack ads against Greens, Labor and teal candidates.

The Liberal Party, and the nation itself, is at a political crossroads. What happens next could redraw the Australian ...

More than any other issue, the CFMEU corruption scandal is threatening to derail Jacinta Allan’s start to the year, and with it, her path to re-election.

Bangladesh's prime minister-in-waiting Tarique Rahman on Saturday dedicated his landslide election win to those who "sacrificed for democracy", calling for unity after the first polls since a deadly ...

The new Liberal Party leader rose in an overwhelming vote against Sussan Ley. Will that be enough to arrest the party’s steep ...

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert's comments that network executives pulled his interview with a Democratic Texas Senate candidate have prompted a conversation about how US media outlets treat ...

The LNP this week reversed a ban on state political donations by developers and quadrupled the cap, despite the corruption watchdog’s concerns.

At just 276 days, Sussan Ley’s stint as Liberal leader is the second-shortest in the party’s history. No wonder she left ...