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It sounded a touch desperate – Prime Minister Scott Morrison imploring backpackers to “come on down” to Australia, as the Omicron crisis escalated.

The Family First Party led by two former Labor MPs will be the only party with that name at the South Australian state election after another party with a similar moniker has its application for registration rejected.

Guardian Australia analysis of leaders’ visits since early December shows Labor focused on clawing back ground in northern seats

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defied calls to resign in a feisty performance Wednesday in Parliament — but it may be too little to prevent a push by his Conservative Party's lawmakers to oust him over a series of lockdown-flouting government parties. Pressure on the prime minister grew as one…

As his retirement looms, George Christensen has again drawn fire over his stance on vaccines.

Stereotypes and political rhetoric about poverty ignore the fact that welfare payments in Australia are obscenely low

In the first national poll of the new year, a Resolve survey for the Nine newspapers, Labor had 35% of the primary vote (up three percentage points since November), the Coalition 34% (down five), the Greens 11% (steady), One Nation 3% (steady) and independents 11% (up two).

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's approval ratings slid after his handling of the Omicron-driven coronavirus outbreak fuelled a backlash, a widely watched poll showed on Tuesday, putting opposition Labor into a leading position months away from a federal election.

A new opinion poll has found voter backlash to the government in the wake of the Omicron variant and surging COVID-19 case numbers.

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Homeless people are forced to sleep in tents and public toilets in Mount Gambier, despite almost 50 social housing properties sitting empty across the region, a Labor MP says.