MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and opposition leader Peter Dutton are each claiming to be the underdog ahead of general elections on Saturday. Albanese, who ...

The Liberal Party of Australia is a major political party in Australia. Founded in 1945 to replace the United Australia Party , the Liberal Party is one of the two major parties in Australian politics ...

STORY: Australian billionaire Clive Palmer launched a political party on Wednesday, citing inspiration from U.S. President Donald Trump, just months before the country's federal election. The mining ...

On the fraudulent pretext of protecting the electoral system from control by “billionaires,” the Australian Labor government, backed by the Liberal-National Coalition, is seeking to rush through ...

In Saturday’s Australian federal election, the Labor and Liberal-National Coalition parties together received the lowest ever share of first preferences, with almost one-third of voters choosing a ...

Political parties are integral to the Australian political system, yet also largely absent from the Commonwealth Constitution itself. They are not entirely absent: a constitutional amendment in 1977 – ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Midway through a national election campaign in Australia, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s honeymoon with voters continues to wane, raising the prospect of the country ...