Elections

The federal government is close to finalising its plan for broad changes to election laws, including spending limits, donation limits and truth standards for political ads.

Bangladesh's leader has dramatically resigned and fled the country after the nation's worst political unrest in living memory.

Booming Chinese and South Asian migrant communities are keen to engage in Australian democracy but many do not fully understand how politics works in their adopted home country, new research has shown.  

Kamala Harris secures the delegate votes needed to clinch the Democratic US presidential nomination and become the first woman of colour at the top of a major party ticket.

Two weeks since Trump narrowly avoided assassination, the race for the White House is up-ended — and the Republican contender has long abandoned his short-lived shift to a "nice" tone.

It was a very different Northern Territory in 2016 when Labor rose to power in a monumental election victory. Later this month, the party's complicated legacy in government will be judged by voters – and the election is tipped to be a nailbiter.

The contest was triggered after Chief Minister Eva Lawler visited the Administrator, officially dissolving the 14th parliament.

At least 11 people have reportedly been killed after protests again erupted in Venezuela following recent disputed elections.

Hugo Chavez was the mentor of current President Nicolas Maduro, who claimed victory in the tense weekend elections.

Nicolas Maduro has claimed victory in the South American nation, though the opposition is disputing the results.

Demonstrators are protesting outside the presidential palace and toppling down statues following the re-election of Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro. Here's your breakdown. 

Authorities in the US haven't ruled out new sanctions on Venezuela as they cast doubt on the country's election results.

The current president claims a third term in the South American country as the opposition and international observers say exit polls suggest a different result.

A catastrophic economic collapse has left Venezuela in crisis, with the elections potentially ending 25 years of 'Chavismo' rule.

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.