The Government will limit what lobby groups can spend on election campaigning in its redraft of election finance laws despite strongly objecting to such a limit in 2008.

Labour's leadership was yesterday putting on a brave face over the party's sharply reduced majority in the weekend's Mana byelection.

People around the world have celebrated as Aung San Suu Kyi was this week freed from seven years of house arrest. She says she will continue to fight for human rights and the rule of law in the military-ruled nation of Myanmar.

A former Burmese political prisoner says Aung San Suu Kyi is 'the hope of the nation'.

Matt McCarten has an amazing capacity to fight the fight in an uncompromising way but with an immense amount of goodwill and humour.

Aung San Suu Kyi's release will no doubt raise hopes and expectations.

The police were helpless to contain the crowd's enthusiasm when the barricades around Suu Kyi's house were taken down.

Thousands of wildly cheering supporters welcomed the end of the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar's first election in 20 years was marked by a low turnout.

US voters yesterday rebuked Obama's handling of the nation's affairs by returning legislative power to the Republicans.

The knives were out for President Barack Obama even before the last votes were counted in the mid-term elections.

The internet offers an exciting variety of new ways to view trends in the current mid-term elections in the US.