After a thumping election victory, Anthony Albanese now has to contemplate how to best use his strengthened authority within Parliament, his caucus and the public.
Katina Curtis
In a result few predicted, Labor has gained the seat of Moore, ending decades of Liberal dominance in the northern Perth electorate.
Liam Murphy
Labor is actively backing Independent MP for Curtin Kate Chaney, blasting its own candidate for daring to criticise the high-profile teal.
Ben Harvey
Pollsters, strategists and party sources alike say there are very few guarantees in this election, but these are the key battlegrounds to watch.
Ellen Ransley
Labor has defended the roll out of its GPS tracking technology on domestic violence thugs, as the issue dominated Parliamentary question time on Tuesday.
Dylan Caporn
All governments indulge in a bit of off-budget spending but the Albanese Government has taken it to new heights.
Editorial
Premier Roger Cook said domestic violence offenders should be “put behind bars” in regional areas where electronic monitoring devices cannot be used
Sofia Fimognari and Dylan Caporn
The beloved Scitech Discovery Centre will continue to inspire new generations of West Australian scientists with a $100 million funding injection Labor is promising.
Anthony Albanese has refused to back in Tanya Plibersek as the environment minister if re-elected, despite locking in four other senior ministers.
In an election more about personality than policy, Labor’s campaign launch had to reframe the meaning of leadership. But it was haunted by a leader not even in Australia.
The Prime Minister spoke around the ever-looming presence of Donald Trump, seeking to link the US president to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
Katina Curtis and Dylan Caporn
Speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, Mr Holmes a Court said as the vote count continued it would be ‘one to watch’.
Caitlyn Rintoul
A bevy of senior advisers to Roger Cook have called time on their years in Dumas House, as the Premier uses the post-election honeymoon to shake up ministerial staffing ranks.
The Premier’s right-hand man entered his election party to a cheering crowd as he faced the likely prospect of becoming the new Labor MP for Landsdale.
Claire Sadler
Kimberley MP Divina D’Anna could be on the brink of making WA political history by becoming WA’s first female Indigenous MP to become a minister.
Joe Spagnolo
WA Labor’s candidate for Albany and the seat’s incumbent answers our questions in her own words — find out what matters most to the people vying for Albany’s seat in the lower house with this nine-part series.
Rebecca Stephens, WA Labor
With an election nearing, there’s been a distinct increase in politicians doing silly things on social media in a bid to win the attention of voters.
The new legislated obligation would boost mobile coverage and make sure all Australians can call triple zero no matter their location.
Voters don’t love him, like they loved Mr McGowan in 2021. But Mr Cook only needs them to like him, just enough.
Jessica Page
Mark Butler has accused the Coalition of ‘student politics’ over its criticism of the Government’s response to Chinese live-firing exercises in international waters in the Tasman Sea
Labor is promising to spend $10.4 million to help diabetics self-manage their conditions in a bid to prevent hospitalisations if re-elected in the March 8 election.
Some of Perth’s leading musicians have launched a campaign to save a Fremantle live music venue, that claims it could be forced to close because of a hotel being built next door.
The former premier confirmed to The West that he would join Labor’s key campaign event this weekend, in his first public appearance in the political arena since his shock resignation in May 2023.
Housing Minister John Carey has laid blame for WA’s social housing shortfall on corrupt former bureacrat Paul Whyte, as Labor promised another $80 million towards a crisis that has gotten worse.
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