The man set to be the Liberal’s candidate for the Secret Harbour by-election does not live in the electorate, party leader Basil Zempilas admitted on Wednesday.
Oliver Lane
A tiny company that pocketed Government cash as it spruiked plans to move into carbon capture and storage may have left taxpayers with a multi-million dollar WA oil platform clean up bill.
Rebecca Le May
Labor doesn’t want to get involved in the unions’ fight — but the Sgt Schultz defence is hard to believe.
Jessica Page
WA’s Deputy Premier will personally investigate the issue of dodgy taxi driver practices after widespread problems plaguing the industry was uncovered by The West Australian.
The senior Labor figure spearheading historic strikes against BHP has told Premier Roger Cook and any other political colleagues hoping for an end to the militant industrial action to get stuffed.
Adrian Rauso and Oliver Lane
The Liberal Party is poised to pick a WA councillor and former Navy man Ryan Robertson as its challenger for the Secret Harbour by-election.
Premier Roger Cook has fended off claims he has demoted Minister Reece Whitby by taking away his Tourism and Road Safety portfolios as part of a significant cabinet reshuffle.
An Australian state has pledged to go it alone on a controversial pillar of the government’s post-Bondi firearm reforms.
Nathan Schmidt
Premier Roger Cook says he will remain closely involved in talks with Woodside over Pluto domestic gas after handing the State Development portfolio to David Michael.
Matt Mckenzie
Labor’s ‘Georgia Tree for Secret Harbour’ online campaign trumpets her as ‘Warnbro raised’, but doesn’t mention that she currently lives in Inglewood - more than 60 km away.
A peak employer group is warning companies could struggle to comply with one state’s new work from home laws by the September deadline.
Blair Jackson
Cook’s public defence that the PM is simply ‘too busy running the country’ to drop by the electorate is transparently thin.
Rita Saffioti and Reece Whitby are the last of Labor’s independents, and the party’s factions are just biding their time.
Premier Roger Cook says it would not help if Anthony Albanese visited Secret Harbour during the by-election campaign as the race for the seat in Perth’s south begins to take shape.
WA Premier Roger Cook has warned of an ‘increasingly hostile’ environment ‘facilitated by social media’ in the wake of online death threats and office vandalism directed at state politicians.
Caitlyn Rintoul
An Aussie MP has let rip on the producers of a series of racist leaflets spotted in mailboxes of one Hunter Region community.
Jack Nivison
Premier Roger Cook will take on the portfolios of Defence Industries and Tourism as he announced sweeping changes to his Cabinet on Sunday. SEE THE FULL LIST
Female cricketers at a suburban club are being forced to share exposed shower and toilet facilities with male teams after their local council canceled a promised upgrade.
Josephine Quattrocchi
Premier Roger Cook will take on the key Defence Industries portfolio in a Cabinet reshuffle, to be formally announced on Sunday.
Joe Spagnolo
This week’s Labor stoush over a ministerial position was just the entree to the eventual leadership battle between Rita Saffioti and Amber-Jade Sanderson.
JOE SPAGNOLO
Roger Cook says he hasn’t ‘given any thought’ as to whether he will invite his mate Anthony Albanese to WA to campaign in Secret Harbour.
Roger Cook has just finished building a new film studio in Malaga and is now hoping they will come.
BEN HARVEY
West Australians were looking for more work hours last month as cost-of-living bites.
Tragedy, adversity and inspiration have helped shape the life of Georgia Tree.
