IN 2004 the American journalist John Fund published a book called Stealing Elections, which contained an eye-catching claim. “At least eight of the nineteen hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were actually able to register to vote in either Virginia or Florida while they made their deadly preparations for 9/11.” Fund’s...

IT’S ALMOST seventy years since Australia’s last federal minority government collapsed in internal disunity and scandal, having gone through two leaders kept afloat by two independent Victorian MPs. But minority governments have been much more common in the states and territories in the intervening years, particularly over the past two decades. Since 1990, minority governments...

How should Australia respond to the changing power balance in the region?

The election campaign showed how we don’t seem able to have a rational debate about population, writes Peter Mares.

The sudden rise to influence of the independent MPs is a challenge to the two-party system and how it’s reported, writes Peter Browne.