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Budget 2021CommentsPremiumHow WA has fuelled the nation’s recovery

Booming iron ore exports are supercharging Australia’s pandemic recovery, helping to deliver the Federal Government a company tax windfall this year that’s almost $9 billion higher than forecast.

Peter Law

Budget 2021CommentsPremiumMillions of Aussies to get $1080 (and more for couples)

The sweetener was due to be phased out on June 30 but will be retained at a cost of $7.8 billion ahead of next year’s Federal election.

Danielle Le Messurier

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Jenna ClarkeCommentsPremium
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ScoMo and Frydo prove it pays to shut up and listen

With this year’s Budget, Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg have drawn a line in the sand with their own hardline approaches and shown that it does in fact pay to shut up and listen.

Jenna Clarke

Jenna ClarkeAssistant Editor

Tick of approvalVideoCommentsPremiumThe State that could: WA doing ‘budget heavy lifting’

The Federal Budget is an ‘endorsement of Western Australia,’ Premier Mark McGowan has claimed, after Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg revealed a budget balance sheet underpinned by iron ore revenue.

Charlotte Elton

Federal Budget 2021CommentsPremiumWin for migraine sufferers with key drug listed on PBS

Relief is on the way for migraine sufferers, with the expensive drug Emgality to be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme from June 1.

Jenna Clarke

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Ben HarveyCommentsPremium
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What the Treasurer said... And what he really means

Ben Harvey cuts through the political jargon of Josh Frydenberg’s Federal Budget speech to get to the bottom of what he really means. READ BEN HARVEY’S HILARIOUS COLUMN

Ben Harvey

Federal Budget 2021PremiumCash payments to help women fleeing domestic violence

The extra funding comes after backlash of the Morrison Government over its treatment of women within its own party and scrutiny over the lack of funds allocated in 2020.

Annabel Hennessy

Workers front and centreCommentsPremiumBudget puts Aussies back to work... and on better wages

Getting Australians back into work and bringing unemployment to the lowest sustained level it has been since the 1970s is the centrepiece of this year’s Federal Budget.

Lanai Scarr

Quick readCommentsYour five-minute guide to this year’s Federal Budget

Securing Australia’s economic recovery is at the heart of the Morrison Government’s second pandemic Budget, pumping billions of dollars into infrastructure, skills, aged care and mental health.

Danielle Le Messurier

On alertCOVID warning for WA travellers after new Vic case

West Australians who have visited any of the exposure sites visited by Victoria’s first COVID-19 case in 73 days must get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days.

Briana Fiore

Watch the videoVideoVideo shows detainee digging detention centre tunnel

Claustrophobic footage from inside a 20m-long escape tunnel found underneath the Yongah Hill detention centre has been released by a refugee advocacy group.

Brianna Dugan

PayoutVideoPremiumEx-WA Government advisor’s $300,000 settlement

A former West Australian government advisor has received a settlement of almost $300,000 after suing the Premier and several of his staff members for defamation.

Peter Law and Charlotte Elton

‘Rules are working’CommentsPremiumHotel quarantine worker fired for having second job

A hotel quarantine security guard has been fired after he was discovered working a second job, the state government has revealed – and another is under investigation.

Charlotte Elton

Deadly switchPremiumWoman convicted of murdering grandma by swapping pills

A jury has convicted a woman of murdering her grandmother by tampering with her medication months after she posted on social media that she ‘hated’ her and wanted to change her ‘life status’.

‘Homophobic comments’CommentsPremiumGay rights group demand ECU revoke honorary doctorate

A Busselton gay rights group is demanding that ECU revokes the honorary doctorate recently awarded to former Liberal MP Barry House unless he apologises for previous ‘homophobic’ comments.

Bethany Hiatt

Returned travellersVideoCommentsPremiumMcGowan reveals new panel to improve quarantine system

Premier Mark McGowan has confirmed a panel has been established to look at quarantine facility proposals in the wake of multiple leaks within the State’s COVID hotel system.

Briana Fiore

In courtPremiumYeeda, ex-CEO Jack Burton face cruelty charges

The charges are understood to involve cattle that arrived at the Kimberley Meat Co abattoir — owned by Yeeda — with ingrown horns.

Jenne Brammer

Crown royal commissionPremiumWA gambling boss backed casino chief’s fishing trips

The former head of WA’s casino regulator has admitted he knew at least six years ago about close fishing friendships between the State’s Chief Casino Officer and senior members of Crown’s legal team.

Tim Clarke

North West mysteryPremiumMissing teen ‘living under new identity’, inquest told

There are fears a teenager who went missing from an isolated campsite more than four decades ago was murdered, but her brother believes she may have chosen to disappear and could still be alive.

Shannon Hampton

Digging freePremiumHow WA’s Shawshank-style escape bid was crafted

A 20 metre long escape tunnel has been found at an immigration centre north-east of Perth, but there would be no Hollywood-style escape this time. Here’s how close the inmate came to getting out.

Brianna Dugan

Fired upCommentsPremiumMcGowan hits back at electoral reform ‘lie’

The Premier says he is offended by claims he has backflipped on regional representation in the WA Parliament.

Charlotte Elton

Rustling casePremiumCattle duffing accused facing further charges

Two people at the centre of an alleged cattle rustling syndicate face further charges.

Jenne Brammer

Battery valuePremiumPilbara chases extra value, savings in lithium testwork

Pilbara Minerals is exploring how it can develop a greener, higher-value product from its Pilgangoora lithium project in partnership with processing technology company Calix.

Stuart McKinnon

Market breatherPremiumMiners ease as iron ore rally looks set to cool

Iron ore futures have cooled today sending the share prices of the big miners lower after the benchmark price skyrocketed nearly 9 per cent overnight to a fresh record of $US230.56/t

Daniel Newell