With the Australian federal election a week away, for those interested in the democratic shifts that are taking place in the country, the overall result of the election may be less intriguing than the ...

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 – ...

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 ...

Yet again, in what has become a deepening pattern, the Albanese Labor government teamed up with the Liberal-National Coalition last Thursday to push a far-reaching, anti-democratic bill through both ...

For most of our Federation's history, the two-party system has been an efficient organiser of the population. That has all ...

Mark Evans has received funding and in-kind support to complete democratic audits in the United Kingdom (Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust) and Australia (Museum of Australian Democracy at Old ...

Australia faces a rapidly deteriorating strategic environment, but decades of complacency, underinvestment, and overreliance ...

Australia, once renowned for its long run of strong economic growth and high living standards, now faces declining household incomes, growing public debt, stagnant productivity and political tensions ...