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Under compulsory preferential voting, all formal votes must eventually preference one of the major parties over the other. The electoral commission has released preference flow information for all minor parties, This means we can tell, for example, how many Greens voters preferred Labor and how many the Coalition.

For Australia’s new centre-left government to work, both progressive parties have to put aside the machinations and recognise the best intentions of the other

A desire to pay less tax is part of the conservative mindset, which will make it more persistent even if Professor Stiglitz is right about government.

While women have made the biggest gains, parliament still has a long way to go to truly reflect multicultural Australia

The government this week will take the first step in killing off the controversial Australian Building and Construction Commission by stripping back its powers “to the bare legal minimum”.

While the new PM has vowed not to ‘waste a day in government’, budget restraint will be a key theme – and he doesn’t intend to ruffle too many feathers

Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil says former government’s pressuring of public servants to reveal boat arrival was ‘unprecedented’

After riding the ‘teal’ wave into a seat in parliament, the Goldstein MP outlines her priorities

Labor says action by former government ‘sabotaged’ protocols for political gain and was ‘without precedent’ in Australian history