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Pandemic fightCommentsPremium
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West Australians living in State of artificial reality

Premier Mark McGowan’s COVID-19 mantra has left WA ill-prepared for inevitable virus arrival.

Paul Murray

Paul Murray

Under scrutinyCommentsPremiumBranch stacking Labor MP quits parliamentary committee

A Federal Labor MP involved in a branch stacking scandal has resigned from a powerful parliamentary committee.

Sarah Ison

Gift declarationCommentsPremiumLabor uses Parliament numbers to block Quigley probe

Labor has used its majority in Parliament to block an inquiry into whether Attorney General John Quigley failed to declare several hospitality gifts.

Briana Fiore

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opinion
Day for allCommentsPremium
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Why WA should lead in finding a new Australia Day date

Each year we hear how January 26 is a date more symbolic to the Eastern States than to WA — so if many West Australians feel the date isn’t relevant to them, imagine how our first Australians feel.

Patrick Gorman

Labor praiseCommentsPremium‘Virtual’ Albanese seeks westward route to The Lodge

The Federal Labor leader has firmly hitched his wagon to wildly popular WA Premier Mark McGowan.

Josh Zimmerman

Labor targetCommentsPremiumAlbanese says Pearce a ‘priority’ at Federal election

Labor leader Anthony Albanese says winning Christian Porter’s seat of Pearce will be a ‘priority’ at the next Federal election, saying he hopes the people in his electorate will seal his fate.

Joe Spagnolo

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AMBO AMBUSHCommentsPremium
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Why Labor powerbrokers want to get hold of St John

In a blatant power grab, the United Workers Union wants St John Ambulance to be in-house because it gives the union even more muscle.

Ben Harvey

Ben Harvey

Justice reformCommentsPremiumWA Labor backs raising age of criminal responsibility

Labor has passed a motion to raise the age of criminality above 10 at the party’s State conference today.

Sarah Steger

The West Australian exclusive
The West Australian exclusive
Juvenile justiceCommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Labor push to raise age of criminal responsibility

WA Labor will debate whether to raise from 10 to 14 the minimum age children can be prosecuted for a crime and jailed at the party’s State conference this weekend.

Annabel Hennessy

McGowan backflipCommentsPremiumPremier’s concession in Quigley chopper controversy

Mark McGowan has backflipped on a previous claim but continues to defend Attorney-General John Quigley over his decision to accept a free Margaret River helicopter flight.

Josh Zimmerman

Get the chop?CommentsPremiumHoney calls on Quigley to quit amid Crown chopper saga

Liberal leader David Honey has called on Attorney General John Quigley to ‘consider his position’ after revelations he shared a December helicopter ride with Crown Perth director John Poynton.

Josh Zimmerman

PlummetingCommentsPremiumAnthony Albanese’s popularity drops to record low

Satisfaction in Anthony Albanese has dropped to an all-time low while the Coalition has improved slightly — but Labor still boasts an election-winning lead, according to the latest Newspoll.

Sarah Ison

One vote, one valueCommentsPremiumMcGowan labels Upper House a regional ‘dictatorship’

Labor has introduced the Electoral Equality Bill, which will scrap the six existing Legislative Council regions — including three in the bush — in favour of a single ‘whole of State’ electorate.

Peter Law

Labor shakeupCommentsPremiumKristina Keneally to make bold lower house move

Federal Labor is in for a shakeup as Shadow Home Affairs Minister Kristina Keneally declares she will attempt to shift from the Senate into the Lower House seat of Fowler in Western Sydney.

Sarah Ison

jab at jabsCommentsPremiumHayward slams Harvey’s ‘appalling’ vaccine rollout

Nationals MLC James Hayward has taken aim at the State Government’s “appalling” vaccine rollout in the shire of Harvey.

Luke McPherson

The West Australian exclusive
The West Australian exclusive
‘Curtail debate’CommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Urgent bills process for McGowan Govt ‘dangerous’

A Labor-dominated committee has recommended the introduction of an ‘urgent bills’ process that would allow the McGowan Government to set maximum debate times for legislation in the Upper House.

Josh Zimmerman

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Brendan O’ConnorCommentsPremium
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Why ALP’s defence review would put WA front and centre

WA has always been pivotal to our nation’s defence, but a proposed defence force posture review by an Albanese-led government could increase the State’s importance.

Brendan O'Connor

Election pledgePremiumFederal Labor pledges $24m to end workplace harassment

Anthony Albanese has declared sexual harassment in the workplace ‘must stop’, announcing a suite of measures which Labor would implement if it was voted into power.

Sarah Ison

Sad newsCommentsPremiumSenator dies after cancer battle

There were tears on both sides of politics after Alex Gallacher’s death was announced.

Sarah Ison

Newspoll shockCommentsPremiumCoalition drops to lowest primary support since 2019

The Coalition faces a growing challenge at the next Federal election after it fell to its lowest popular rating since it regained power in May 2019.

Brianna Dugan

‘I’m angry’CommentsPremium‘I’m in a face shield’: Senator’s ‘scary’ COVID battle

Labor Senator Katy Gallagher has revealed the grim reality treating her COVID-infected daughter while her ‘son is in the next room waiting to catch it’, as Canberra’s cluster continues to grow.

Kimberley Caines

the power of loveCommentsPremiumMark McGowan’s popularity a miracle to behold

‘Holy crap that’s Mark McGowan.’ The kid who said that was all of eight years old. Seeing the Premier in a crowd made that 89 per cent approval rating very real. I have never seen anything like it.

Ben Harvey

Ben Harvey

War of wordsPremiumMcGowan labels Joyce an ‘embarrassment to Australia’

The WA Premier has warned the PM he should not go overseas if it means Barnaby Joyce is left in charge of the country.

Peter Law

Barnaby respondsVideoPremiumJoyce bites back over MP’s ‘spurious’ groping claims

Barnaby Joyce has challenged a West Australian MP who says she was warned about the Deputy PM’s ‘history of groping women’ to make the allegations outside the cover of parliamentary privilege.

Lanai Scarr