Nick O'Malley is a senior writer and a former US correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Although it was widely written off as an embarrassing failure, One Nation's campaign in the Western Australia election was a considerable victory in which the party positioned itself to seize long-term balance of power in the federal senate, according to a new analysis.
Anti-halal certification campaigner Kirralie Smith has joined Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives.
Malcolm Turnbull has called urgent crisis talks with Australia's east coast gas companies after the energy market regulator warned of looming shortages that could lead to widespread blackouts as early as next year.
Declaring that Australia is in the midst of an energy crisis, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said he will call together the chief executives of east coast gas companies to address the threat to their customers.
Can Cory Bernardi capitalise on growing divisions in Australia, or is he simply splintering the conservative vote?
At the heart of the controversy over Health Minister Sussan Ley's investment property in Surfers Paradise is a simple principle.
Stephen Conroy is hardly the first elected public servant to augment his or her generous publicly-funded superannuation scheme like this. But for some reason, the Conroy example smells worse than others.
In an election where the boundaries between victory and defeat have blurred, one clear winner was Rebekha Sharkie.
Speaking during a victory party in Adelaide Nick Xenophon has refused to declare which party he would support in the event of a hung parliament.
Rebekha Sharkie has become the first member of the Nick Xenophon Team to take a seat in the lower house, taking Mayo from the one-time Liberal Party minister Jamie Briggs.
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