A national union figure has confirmed that Julia Gillard's leadership was discussed during an election battle plan meeting attended by a number of Australia's most powerful union and factional heads.

Contrary to denials by ACTU chiefs, a powerbroker who attended the high-level talks in Melbourne on Tuesday told the National Times that there was discussion of Kevin Rudd resuming the prime ministership.

The Magna Carta forced King John to give away powers. But big business now exerts a chilling grip on the workforce

Chief government whip Joel Fitzgibbon has reiterated his comments that political leaders who are unpopular are unlikely to survive.

Mr Fitzgibbon said this morning that he still believed Prime Minister Julia Gillard had time to turn her dire polling numbers around.

The ALP has been attacking the Greens and talking about Labor values.  Here’s how the Prime Minister described Labor values in a speech last year. She said:

Olympic security is in disarray, but organisers are taking no chances with corporate deals...

Protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade on Sunday during her first visit to Egypt since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

A tomato struck an Egyptian official in the face, and shoes and a water bottle landed near the armoured cars carrying Clinton's delegation in the port city of Alexandria.

Was John Howard’s Australia the place admirers like Tony Abbott promote?

‘The Happy Land’ is Graham Jackson‘s satirical alternative reality.

In political fortune telling self-delusion is not helpful — the stakes are too high. This is my reading of the available evidence of our immediate political future. I think that we are witness to a frightening convergence of forces in Australian political and social life.

It is billed as the greatest show on earth. But the closer you get to the London stadium that will be the centre of the Olympic Games in just over a fortnight, the more it's starting to look like a militarised occupation zone.

East London has become lockdown London. The Olympics are the focus of Britain's largest security mobilisation since the Second World War.

A few hours after the Supreme Court upheld his signature health care legislation last week, President Barack Obama approached a White House podium, addressed the camera and declared that the nation's top justices had reaffirmed an important guiding principle of his presidency.

The Australian Defence Force stands accused of gross breaches of behaviour in regard to sexual harassment and assaults. There can be no doubt that instances of sexual abuse of young men and women occurred during the six decades examined by DLA Piper in its seminal report delivered to the government in October last year. The question now is: what to do about it?