Taxpayers are being asked to hand over billions to multinational mining giant Rio Tinto to help keep its Tomago aluminium smelter open – again.

The Labor and Liberal–National parties rely more on preferences to win elections than ever before, according to new analysis from The Australia Institute.  

For the first time in Australian history, all three major parties – Labor, Liberal and National – have leaders who saw off a crossbench challenger to hold their seat, according to new Australia Institute analysis.

Almost all of Australia’s top chief executives are, according to their boards at least, knocking it out of the park in terms of performance.

The Wrap with Dr Emma Shortis As Taylor Swift said, if you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. Last week the Trump administration sent Australia’s national security establishment into a spin when it announced that it was reviewing the Aukus submarine pact to ensure that it fits Trump’s “America First” agenda. But even before

Regardless of who wins the July 19 state election, Tasmanians overwhelmingly want the government to rip up the dud stadium deal with the AFL.

New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that, following the recent federal election, there are now more women than ever in Australia’s nine parliaments, but the coalition’s so-called “women problem” remains. 

Now that the dust has settled on the 2025 federal election, what does it mean for the representation of women in Australian parliaments? In short, there has been a significant improvement at the national level. When we last wrote on this topic, the Australian Senate was majority female but only 40% of House of Representatives

Tasmanians keep voting for a power-sharing parliament over the wishes of the major parties.

Musk may be out, but the influence of the tech bros has never been greater.

Australians know how to solve national problems, but our political system protects the duopoly that creates them. That’s why we need proportional representation.

The community independent movement did not begin in Sydney or Melbourne, but in the bush.

A record number of Australians voted for independents and minor parties at the most recent federal election election.

The ABC is always under attack. The best thing we can do for democracy is defend it.

Updated 30/05/2025 The outer-Melbourne electorate of Calwell was named “Australia’s most unpredictable seat” by The Age after the election and was – aside from those going to a recount – the last seat to be called. The AEC labelled the counting process for the seat “likely the most complex in Australia’s history”. The count is

A new poll conducted for The Australia Institute has found that 72% of voters saw misleading political advertisements during the recent election campaign, with well over half of those exposed to misleading ads every day.

Are voters missing out on more than their democracy sausage?

If anyone knows what is going on in the National party, could you please stand up? Interested parties in the Nationals would love to know.

Donald Trump isn’t an aberration – he’s as much a product of American history as JFK or Barack Obama.

The days of big polluters using dodgy carbon offsets to greenwash their products are numbered.

The days of media moguls deciding Australian elections are over, according to new research by The Australia Institute.

With the influence of the right-wing media waning, the Labor Government can use its massive majority to pursue big reforms.

Friends, Australians, countrymen, we come to bury Peter Dutton, not to praise him.

Richard Denniss joined ABC’s Afternoon Briefing to reflect on what the election result means for policy reform in Australia. Interview with Tom Lowry.

After the election, the re-elected Labor Government has an extraordinary opportunity to make big structural changes to the economy.