Elections

Labor has announced a plan for further funding to expand out of school hours care, while the Liberal Party now supports the concept of free schools and is demanding a freight bypass to get trucks off city roads.

Labor has vowed to abolish public school fees for primary and high school students from 2027, if it's returned to government, while the Liberal Party said it will commit $4.3 million to stop stormwater litter reaching South Australia's coastline.

Both major parties in South Australia say they will preference former opposition leader David Speirs last at the state election, as he rules out returning to the Liberal Party. 

Ahead of the SA election, the Greens have made only modest gains in polling compared to rival minor parties, but party leader Robert Simms is not disappointed by the result.

Former SA Liberal leader David Speirs has confirmed he has nominated to run in his former seat of Black in the state election, 10 months after he was convicted of drug supply offences.

Opposition leader Angus Taylor responds to SA Liberal leader Ashton Hurn's criticism of her federal counterparts, as he joins her on the state campaign trail in Adelaide.

SA Labor has announced a plan to abolish stamp duty for those aged over 60 and planning to downsize at the party's election campaign launch, in what seems to be a major policy shift from the position detailed by the state's former treasurer.

The South Australian Liberal Party has indicated it may direct preferences to One Nation ahead of Labor and the Greens. It comes as prominent Liberal senator Alex Antic was spotted having drinks with One Nation's lead SA candidate Cory Bernardi, amid speculation over a possible defection.

Election campaigning in South Australia is officially underway, with candidates seizing the opportunity to begin making their formal pitches to voters before they head to the ballot box in March.

Even if it's a Labor landslide, we'll learn a lot from next month's South Australian election, writes Casey Briggs.

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce says he might recontest his seat of New England as a candidate for One Nation if the party needs him to.

Women were less likely to vote for the Coalition at the 2025 election than ever before, according to the Australian Election Study.

At a time when so much of the global conversation is about the rapid decline of democracy, it is striking what a huge impact elections are having on world events just now.

Just 3 per cent of voters fined for not voting in last year’s Northern Territory local government elections have paid the penalty. Debate is growing over whether the system is working — or unfair to voters in remote areas.

Within two hours of being elected Liberal leader, Angus Taylor has already been delivered his first big electoral test, and it has come from the woman he deposed.

After months of speculation, Liberals hope Angus Taylor can bring the Liberals back from what many in the party fear is the edge of obscurity.

South Australia's Treasurer says the Liberal Party has secretly dumped its major $495 million policy less than six weeks out from the state election, with the Opposition arguing it has to wind back Labor's tax due to state budget blowouts.

South-East Asia's second-largest economy went to the polls on Sunday in a tight race between conservatives aligned with the military and the monarchy, and progressive elements represented by the reform-driven People's Party.

Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner are expected to hold upwards of two-thirds of the seats in Japan's lower house.

Pauline Hanson might not have any substantive policies, but her rhetoric about reducing migration is clearly finding an audience.