Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, said that Australia is one of the few foreign government to have been ...

Her election to the state parliament in 2013 made her the first Muslim woman to attain any political office in Australia. She told the BBC she would use her new role as senator to fight for a ...

Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano - a Trump-endorsed Republican who previously lost a gubernatorial race - has been mercilessly mocked online after mistaking a Star Wars TIE fighter for a ...

When Fatima Payman was first elected to Australia’s senate, she didn’t imagine she’d go to war with the prime minister two years later. Back in May, the country’s first hijabi lawmaker ...

Critics say the motion by Pauline Hanson, pictured in 2017, was a publicity stunt Australia's Senate has narrowly defeated a motion condemning "anti-white racism", by just three votes. Pauline ...

Nationals Senator Matt Canavan has shown ... The Australian Citizenship Ceremonies Code currently states councils must either hold the ceremony on Australia Day, three days before Australia ...