Childcare reforms and student debt are among the bills anticipated to be put in front of the 48th parliament, with 40 new MPs ...

The Trump administration barred undocumented immigrants from Head Start and other federal benefit programs — a move ...

As parliament returns, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley and other senior Liberals may have to leave the first sitting day early ...

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Riders on New Jersey Transit’s rail lines had to do without their trains for four days in the middle of May, due to a strike ...

Although it seems unthinkable for the modern Australian Labor Party (ALP), in the past, democratically mandated Labor ...

A photo of one-time prime ministerial hopeful Mark Latham will not be taken down from Labor's caucus room, as the ex-leader faces domestic abuse accusations.

In a compromise move the portrait of Mark Latham in Labor’s caucus room will have a disclaimer to recognise his life ...

The 48th parliament is about to begin. Here’s who will be there, what’s on the agenda, and the political and policy ...

Australia's island state of Tasmania appeared on Sunday to be heading for a minority government as vote counting continued ...

When British authorities deported Irish rebels to their Australian penal colonies, they also exported a tradition of anti-colonial resistance.