New research reveals community cohesion, robust social supports and media diversity mean its harder in Australia than the US to exploit crime fears to win votes.

Although it is not totally uncommon to other developing countries, Sri Lanka is extremely indulged in political and power struggles between political parties and political leaders. ..

A bombshell leaked letter is the “smoking gun” according to furious Liberals that Nationals Senate leader Bridget McKenzie was hellbent on splitting up the Coalition after the election and the ...

Crime and public safety are usually the domain of state politics. But the Coalition tried to elevate them as key issues for voters in the recent ...

As Nationals leader David Littleproud put it to the ABC: "We can't get caught up in the rediscovery of the Liberal Party." It ...

We have just witnessed an extraordinary day in Australian political history – the Liberal and National coalition splitting for the first time in nearly 40 years and only the third time since they came ...

There are political lessons from Canada, Australia, the UK and Europe for liberal parties everywhere. In taking on the hard ...

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

Take a long-standing political party. Make it one that has been the dominant political force in its country, historically the ...

The Nationals may have pulled the trigger on ending the Coalition arrangement, but the Liberals had helped fashion the bullet ...

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