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There's confidence that the Northern Marianas Government will find the money needed to fund elections due in November. The poll is in doubt because the financially stricken CNMI government has...

The Tongan Advisory Council in New Zealand says there is much work to be done in Tonga to prepare the country for the elections in November. Tonga goes to the...

Labor says an opinion poll released on Sunday night confirms the federal election in Australia on 21 August, will be a tight contest.

Voter support for the Australian Labor party has slipped since its leader Julia Gillard called the federal election on Saturday, putting the parties level on two-party-preferred support.

Britain's Immigration Minister says banning the wearing of burqas in public would be un-British and he has attacked efforts to make it illegal.

Australia's Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has announced a federal election for 21 August.

National Party president Peter Goodfellow is confident of being re-elected at the annual conference in Auckland on Saturday despite some discontent about his leadership.

The Solomon Isands Chief Electoral Officer, Polycarp Haununu, says the upcoming National Election in August will cost the government a total of 2.9 million US dollars. He says so far...

The Australian prime minister's vision for a refugee processing centre in East Timor has been dealt another blow. East Timor's Deputy Prime Minister, Mario Viegas Carrascalao, has rejected Julia…

More than 50 international observers will be in Solomon Islands for next month's national election. A United Nations team has arrived in Solomon Islands to coordinate the deployment of the...

Papua New Guinea's Western Province Governor Dr Bob Danaya is warning a vote of no-confidence in Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare is imminent. As the Constitution does not allow any...

The Solomon Islands Police Commissioner says he's not expecting next month's national election to bring a repeat of the riots that marred the last election. Police Commissioner Peter Marshall says...

Japan is voting in upper house elections on Sunday. The poll is seen as a referendum on 10 months of rule by the Democratic Party of Japan, which came to power last August.

The Solomon Islands caretaker Prime Minister, Dr Derek Sikua, has rejected claims that Solomon Islands is a failed state. Speaking at the 32nd Independence anniversary celebration, Dr Sikua said…

The caretaker president of Nauru, Marcus Stephen, says he has removed the speaker from office, a week after he had been chosen. Aloysius Amwano was dismissed after refusing any motion...

Political parties in Solomon Islands are taking differing positions on whether the country should cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan. Last week, the caretaker finance minister Francis Billy Hilly said…

Britain will go to the polls next year to vote on whether to retain its electoral system. Audio

The main opposition party in Mexico has claimed victory in regional elections that are considered an important test for the presidential election in two years' time.

With almost all the votes counted in the Polish election, the governing party's candidate is set to become the new president.

A new consumer survey by UMR Research shows more people are feeling upbeat about the economy and their bank balances.

A Cook Islands business woman who's campaigned for political reform is part of a new group encouraging women to enter politics. Teina McKenzie says they want to see more balanced...

There is increasing speculation that the new prime minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, will call an election soon.