Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Australian billionaire Clive Palmer launched a political party on Wednesday, citing inspiration from U.S. President Donald ...

Australia’s right-wing Liberal Party is in freefall, while Labor — now the party of capital — is set to retain its parliamentary majority. It’s a historic transformation, rooted in the demise of ...

SYDNEY — Australia’s center-left government convincingly won reelection Saturday in a remarkable turnaround driven partly by anger over President Donald Trump’s disruptive trade war and its effect on ...

Australia’s return of a left-leaning government follows Canada’s similar sharp swing towards Mark Carney’s Liberal Party, another governing party whose fortunes were transformed by Trump. The loss of ...

Sharp divisions are erupting inside Australia’s opposition Liberal Party and its coalition with the rural-based National Party, producing a potentially existential crisis for one of the ...

Sydney - A few days after President Donald Trump took office, just as Elon Musk was firing up his chainsaw to carve up American bureaucracy, a similar cost-cutting proposal was taking shape on the ...

SYDNEY, May 20 (Reuters) - Australia's National Party has split from its conservative coalition partner of over 60 years, the Liberal Party, citing policy differences over renewable energy and after a ...

SYDNEY — Australians head to the polls on Saturday in a federal election that has been upended by political missteps, a natural disaster and, above all, Donald Trump’s tumultuous trade war, which has ...

Brisbane and Sydney, Australia (CNN) — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has secured a second term in office in a disastrous night for his conservative rivals, as voters chose stability over ...