Australian Labor is following the lead of the UK and NZ in giving members a vote in selecting party leader. Freelance journalist David Donaldson takes a look at how the schemes work overseas.
British retirees living in Australia get half the pension of their countrymen and women. The long-running fight to overturn the freeze has now called on the Queen for help, reports freelance writer Ava Hubble.
David Miranda was detained at London Heathrow airport for nine hours, which Victorian barrister Rudi Cohrssen says is a troubling sign of the power of the surveillance state.
Australia's campaign donations regulations are among the most lax in the world. Freelance journalist Jacqueline Ning says despite political will for change it remains a largely unregulated area.
Spain and Britain are still arguing over the coastal territory, but the discussion is unlikely to spark another Falklands War, writes Charles Richardson.
Air Austral looks set to abandon plans for large-capacity planes flying between France and Noumea. The airline's idea was ahead of its time, writes Ben Sandilands.
How normal is Kate? So normal. And Willy is such a normal dad. And George will be normalised, too. These new-age royals are all so normal. Or so the narrative goes.
In the thick of royal baby news hullaballoo, David Cameron announced an internet censorship filter very much like Stephen Conroy's. It's woefully impractical and doomed to fail, writes Charles Richardson.
Ex-John Howard adviser Lynton Crosby now has the ear of the UK Prime Minister -- with interesting results. Has the Australian brought low politics to British Tory strategy?
They say that in Russian the words for “light blue” and “dark blue” are different, and that people do not recognise them as the same colour. Whether that’s true, or simply fake exoticism, I have no idea. But we sure could use some new colours for politics as we are fast running out.
