Elections

Labor MP Michelle Ananda-Rajah will attempt to make the switch from the House to the Senate as a Victorian Labor candidate at next year's election.

Tenants in two capital cities are paying more than 30 per cent of their income, on average, towards their rent — for the first time since the SGS Economics Rental Affordability Index was first published a decade ago.

SA Liberal leader Vincent Tarzia says his party will not re-visit the late-term abortion debate following its by-election loss in Black, warning anyone who introduces a private member's bill on the topic "won't be welcome in the shadow cabinet or in the cabinet".

Labor has described the Black by-election boilover as a "vote of confidence" — but the result is equally, if not more, telling for the South Australian Liberal Party, which has been whittled down to just 13 lower house MPs.

The cheap points of politics means we have little sensible debate about fixing our migration system so that it works better for everyone, and for the economy. A looming election only appears likely to make sensible debate even more unattainable.

The ruling could unseat South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung and deny him a shot at running for president in the next election.

Overall Australian attitudes to Donald Trump's victory are negative, but a surprising number of mortgage-aged households are less likely to fear him, a survey taken after the US election has found.

There is a list of high-profile Trump loyalists who will land positions in his White House, but this week Mar-a-Lago was crawling with other MAGA faithful who want a presidential treat too.   

It means the party has recorded a clean sweep in the US elections, winning the presidency, the Senate, and now the House of Representatives.

The Victorian government's goal of having an equal number of men and women in local government has fallen well short, especially in regional areas.

Labor has ruled out revisiting a scrapped policy from 2019 that would have linked federal funding for public hospitals to the provision of abortion services, saying it's an issue for the states and territories. 

A suspicious number of multiple returns — defined as more than one postal ballot pack returned from a single voter — were flagged in Whittlesea City Council Lalor Ward and Knox City Council Baird Ward elections.

WA premier Roger Cook has conceded the timing of the next state election is "out of his hands" as a looming, but undetermined, federal election date threatens to cause a schedule clash.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is moving aggressively to ready Labor for an early election campaign, flying to Tasmania to announce high-profile candidates for Braddon and Lyons.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismisses suggestions of an election as protesters chant over press conference.

Shigeru Ishiba survived re-election in the first runoff vote in Japan in 30 years.

Arizona, with its 11 Electoral College votes, is now the last state to be called — and Donald Trump holds a lead there too.

Mark Kenny describes how the style and strategy of Donald Trump's politics will influence the next Australian election.

Australia's election campaign will not be fought in the way the US race was fought: as a battle between rage or joy. But we should despair that it will feature little of the policy rigour or ambition that economists like Geoff Carmody brought to battles gone by. 

The South Korean president says he's sorry for controversies surrounding his wife, but also denied wrongdoing and claimed opponents had "demonised" her.