Ministerial powers to remove Australian citizenship fundamentally devalue it, and dual nationals are the biggest losers.

Many Western democracies have fixed terms on a federal level. But Australian governments have long resisted a change that would make them cede election power.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s proposal to change the Australian constitution to give Ministers discretionary power to ...

Any such payouts will be designed, in line with the Mabo decision itself, to benefit a privileged layer of indigenous land ...

The opposition leader says spending as much as $450 million on a poll to give the government powers to expel criminal dual ...

Australia held a failed referendum in 1999 to ask whether the people agreed to change the constitution to become a republic ...

All this means that the scope of the Gumatj decision in practice is restricted to commonwealth territories – such as the Top End and Canberra – and various commonwealth places, such as certain coastal ...