Elections

Former WA opposition leader Mia Davies is set to confirm her bid for a spot in Canberra, 18-months after announcing she was quitting state politics.

In an Oval Office address to explain why he abandoned his re-election bid, Joe Biden said he believes he's earned a second term as US president, but "personal ambition" cannot get in the way of saving democracy.

Since the end of the presidency of Barack Obama, who was 47 when he took his first oath of office, US politics has not only looked chaotic and unhinged, but tired and exhausted. American democracy has seemed more like an American gerontocracy.  

Television is regularly declared to be dead, or at least dying. But nobody seems to have told American politics, where TV still wields a bafflingly disproportionate degree of power in what is supposed to be the greatest democracy on Earth.

Kamala Harris's campaign says she has secured the support of enough Democratic delegates to become her party's nominee. So how could her campaign against Donald Trump shape up?

Independents are aiming to capitalise on voter dissatisfaction with the two major parties at next month's Northern Territory election, with candidates contesting seats across the entire jurisdiction.

Never before has a major US political party switched horses midstream this close to a presidential election. There are so many unknowns.

Joe Biden's withdrawal from the US presidential race has left Democrats in a precarious and chaotic position. Here's how the next few weeks could play out. 

Despite a week of campaign stops, interviews, and insistence from Joe Biden that he's running, it's done little to silence his doubters.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds his first campaign event since the attempt on his life, telling a crowd of supporters he "took a bullet for democracy".

Donald Trump has held his first rally since the assassination attempt at his campaign event last weekend, with his newly minted running mate JD Vance joining him in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Seven days ago, a defiant Joe Biden was refusing calls to withdraw from this year's election while Donald Trump prepared for a huge rally ahead of the Republican National Convention. And then everything changed.

Local Government Minister Ron Hoenig gave Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun seven days to "show cause" as to why the council should not be suspended on Thursday.

Local Government Minister Ron Hoenig has advised Mayor Ned Mannoun that Liverpool Council has a week to prove why it should not be suspended, after an investigation found "widespread and serious concerns about dysfunction" within the council.

The US president gives a thumbs-up as he boards Air Force One to depart Las Vegas after testing positive to COVID.

Donald Trump's pick for vice president, JD Vance, addresses the Republican National Convention as US President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19. 

After once describing Donald Trump as "nuts" and a "traitor to the West", former prime minister Kevin Rudd has changed his tune.

The former French prime minister has been appointed to a 'caretaker government', responsible for running the Paris Olympic Games next week.

Young people's view of politics and political expression differs from older generations, and they're showing it by abandoning the two major parties.

When Donald Trump first took office, JD Vance boldly declared he would never support him. So how did this conservative venture capitalist-turned-politician win over the former president to become his pick for Republican vice-president?

Some may consider the shooting of Donald Trump to be a worrying sign of a new era of political violence but unfortunately George Bush senior and junior, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and even Joe Biden have all faced security threats and attempted assassinations. It's what happens next that will define America.

Donald Trump selects Ohio senator JD Vance as his running mate, at the beginning of a four-day Republican National Convention to confirm the party's presidential ticket.

The WA Liberal Party needs to win back the once ultra-safe blue seats that went to Labor last time if it is to become a respectably sized opposition, let alone form government. How many can they claw back?

US President Joe Biden says Donald Trump has been given a free pass while speculation over his future swirls.

During its time in office, the UK Conservative Party was chaotic, inept and hubristic. But, if it was bad, the Labour Party's infighting might have been even worse.