Over 12 years and five federal elections, Clive Palmer spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to influence Australian politics. With the mining magnate appearing to call time on his political ...

Few would have put Dan Tehan in the Liberal leadership mix a week ago. He's now in a three-way battle for the Coalition's top job.

Was it Australia’s fundamental decency that rejected the right? Or was it simply that they didn’t put up a good enough candidate?

Once upon a time, we used to force cardinals into a crumbling old building, without toilets, walls or even much food — all the better to speed things along.

Party faithful have savaged their own digital campaign, saying social media posts aimed at voters were 'cringe'.

The teal movement has been brought back down to earth with Tim Wilson's victory in Goldstein, while Amelia Hamer continues to surge in Kooyong. Plus, the federal Liberals continue to blame their ...

Following its decimation on election night, it's clear that the Liberal Party can't agree on its future direction. What does its base actually look like now?

The former member for Dickson is among a dwindling number of federal politicians still enrolled in a now-defunct parliamentary pension scheme that pays out big bucks to eligible retired MPs.

The earliest references to Albanese’s Praetorian Guard were ahead of the 2022 election, where the Financial Review’s Andrew Tillett and Guardian Australia’s Katharine Murphy (incidentally now Albanese ...