Albanese visited Australia’s Governor-General Sam Mostyn on Friday morning, asking her to dissolve parliament and announcing an election date of May 3. Under law, Australia must hold federal ...

By Victoria Kim Reporting from Canberra, Australia Australia is one of America’s closest allies; the two countries have fought alongside each other in every major conflict since World War I.

Australia will head to the polls for a federal ... announced the date from Parliament House on Friday. Opinion polls predict a slim margin between the country's two major parties, and the ...

President Ramchandra Paudel has prorogued the current session of both houses of the Federal Parliament, effective from ...

Australia’s most recent experience of a hung parliament was the Gillard-Rudd government of 2010–13. Many still see that as an unhappy era, with internal division within Labor’s party room in ...