Labor has gone down an Alice In Wonderland-style rabbit hole in its word games over the harbour decision, turning it into a shambles and making Metronet look positively transparent.
Paul Murray
WA’s peak towing body wants urgent reforms to the Government’s new rules after ‘deficient’ laws failed to stamp out predatory practices and disproportionately affected family-run operators.
Sarah Steger
Former Liberal leader John Pesutto has been ordered to pay $2.3m in the fallout from the Moira Deeming defamation battle.
Duncan Evans
Unions representing tens of thousands of workers across one state are fighting reform to workers compensation one likened to a “dark-alley backstabbing”.
Nathan Schmidt
The NSW Treasurer wants the workers compensation scheme reformed, saying billions are being spent keeping it afloat, but has angered state employees.
The State Government is arguing for a ‘fair and sustainable’ increase to WA’s minimum wage, but declined to put a number on it as unions brace for a new pay fight.
Jessica Page
The Premier has pushed the Albanese Government to make a ‘safe’ decision on the extension of the North West Shelf project as soon as possible.
Dylan Caporn
Roger Cook remains confident he can sway opinion towards plans to redevelop Burswood Park into an ‘entertainment and sporting precinct’ as the Government starts community consultation on the contentious project
A global construction company which has never built an Australian hospital has been backed by the Cook Government to deliver WA’s planned maternity hospital alone after the collapse of its local partner
Premier Roger Cook has questioned the ‘gap in the system’ that allowed a former senior CCC officer accused of having an intimate relationship with an informant to land a senior government job.
A judge presiding over the case of a woman suing over a strip search at a popular music festival has told the court she has “grave concerns”.
A former Liberal MP charged with child sex offences after allegedly meeting a boy on a gay hook-up app is back behind bars on remand.
A clinical trials ‘roadmap’ will be launched in Bunbury today that aims to set out a plan to bring together research by universities, hospitals and medical research institutes to improve health outcomes.
WA’s planned Women’s and Babies Hospital has been thrown into disarray by the spectacular collapse of the builder handpicked by the State Government to deliver the politically sensitive project.
Dylan Caporn and Ben Harvey
Western Australia is now being targeted to potential travellers from a key tourism market which has struggled to rebound since the pandemic.
Oliver Lane
A Bill to ensure legal access to abortions in remote and regional communities in one Australian state has passed a major hurdle.
An awkward handshake turned into a back-slapping embrace, as Anthony Albanese met with Roger Cook to celebrate his emphatic re-election.
Anthony Albanese will not push his new environment minister to rush a decision on the North West Shelf extension, despite mounting pressure from the Premier and WA industry groups.
Liberal and Labor leaders in one Australian state have slammed an anti-activist campaigner over allegations of misinformation and bullying.
The head of WA’s building watchdog who stripped embattled builder NicheLiving of its registration has been appointed small business commissioner.
Doctors are in open revolt against the State Government’s new gun laws, refusing to conduct the health assessments people need to get a firearm licence.
Ben Harvey
The “senior echelons” of one of the country’s largest police forces failed to properly train officers before a woman’s “humiliating” strip search, a court has been told.
Almost 2000 ballots that went missing on election night have been found at the Sydney home of a temporary AEC worker.
Hannah Wilcox
The Premier has urged opponents of a park planned to brighten the view of terminally-sick kids at Perth’s first children’s hospice to have a ‘sense of humanity’.
Claire Sadler
