The clock is ticking on the State Government’s promise to freeze out private coal generator Bluewaters — but shadow minister Steve Thomas says the company should be given a fair go.
Matt Mckenzie
Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas says his character has not been assassinated after he was called a ‘B-grade TV personality’ in Parliament by an ‘ill-disciplined’ politician he said he has ‘literally never heard of’.
Jessica Page
Insane scenes have dominated the final day of anti-war protests in the heart of Melbourne, including one alleged act where a woman cemented herself in a car.
Blair Jackson
One state government has invested $38m to develop programs that will help drive out family and domestic violence across the community in the long-term.
Emma Kirk
WA’s hospital crisis has led to the delay of cardiac surgery at an overwhelmed Perth hospital, later forced to send staff an SOS to urgently discharge patients to free up beds.
About 250 residents flocked to Floreat Forum on Thursday night to join Basil Zempilas and Liberal leader Libby Mettam at a town hall-style meeting to provide comment over the contentious Floreat redevelopment.
Jessica Evensen & Jessica Page
A State Labor MP has accused Seven West Media and its national flagship The Nightly of running a campaign to undermine the Albanese Government’s stalled ‘nature positive’ environment laws.
Dylan Caporn
Sports Minister David Templeman has vowed to ‘never give up on netball’ after the WA Institute of Sport made the ‘difficult’ choice to cut the high-performance program from its list.
A little-known Labor MP has used parliamentary privilege to launch an extraordinary personal attack on Basil Zempilas, calling the Perth Lord Mayor a “B-grade TV personality”.
Explorer Chalice Mining has lauded the State Government’s call not to ‘sterilise’ Julimar Forest’s mineral potential, as it dials back drilling and sells up staff housing in the thick of a battery metals rut.
Simone Grogan
Habitat concerns of an endangered animal could undermine a proposal to raze a racecourse and replace it with a metro station and 25,000 homes.
Jessica Wang
Nurses have demanded a 20 per cent pay rise — a rate almost double what other public sector workers have received — as part of ANF WA secretary Mark Olson’s return to the negotiating table.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s whirlwind visit to Perth in June — which saw gun-toting snipers hanging from low-flying helicopters and a freeway shutdown — cost WA taxpayers almost $600,000.
Hospital pharmacists have voted to refuse to charge patients for prescription medication as their pay dispute with the State Government escalates.
West Australian firearms owners have handed over more than 38,000 guns as part of the State Government’s buyback program, with 6000 licence holders surrendering all their weapons.
Dylan Caporn and Joe Spagnolo
Mark Latham has lost his high-profile defamation battle with a Sydney MP over a homophobic tweet that crudely described a sex act.
Steve Zemek
WA’s peak legal body has written to the State Government demanding an urgent independent review of WA’s juvenile justice system, saying pleas to fix it are ‘falling on deaf ears’.
Dylan Caporn and Lauren Price
Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson has repeatedly expressed genuine sympathy for families left waiting as long as three years to see a paediatrician.
A new poll shows that West Australians are pessimistic about their financial future. Two in five voters fear they will be worse off financially in the next 12 months.
While other mums enjoy 20 weeks at home with their newborns, Rockingham MP Magenta Marshall is back at work just six weeks after little Bowie was born.
Rachel Fenner
Public hospital clinicians have greenlit a new pay deal that will bolster conditions for junior doctors, including capping shifts at a maximum of 14 hours.
Claire Sadler
Premier Roger Cook is preparing to remove Chris Field as the State’s Ombudsman in a historic move following claims of serious misconduct regarding taxpayer-funded overseas travel.
More than 500 domestic violence abusers are set to be slapped with GPS trackers after new laws were passed by State Parliament on Tuesday.
Tim Marney has been dumped as the State’s chief green-tape slasher, in what is understood to be an earlier than expected departure from the recently announced role.
