Premier Roger Cook has dismissed claims the Electoral Commissioner is being made a scapegoat as Robert Kennedy resists calls to resign over the bungled March 8 State election.
Jessica Page
A resurgent iron ore price is poised to deliver Western Australia a $2 billion Christmas present, as the State Budget reaps a royalty reward.
The Cook Government will this week move to overhaul Working With Children checks, after it was revealed WA was the only State yet to act on changes recommended in the wake of a horror case of abuse.
Caitlyn Rintoul and Jessica Page
The Cook Government has told WA’s Electoral Commissioner that he will be sacked by a special vote in State Parliament if he fails to resign over this year’s bungled election.
Ben Harvey
Smart cars are being used to threaten, control and abuse women - prompting WA authorities to investigate how to crack down on the growing misuse of technology as part of new coercive control laws.
It was the swift action of local ambulance volunteers gave WA schoolboy Charlie Ware a head start in what would become a weeks-long battle against a life-threatening meningococcal B infection.
Hannah Cross
The biggest ever funding boost to combat family and domestic violence will be used to expand specially trained police response teams, in the wake of a 16 per cent surge in offences.
The new head of the State’s peak mining lobby is heading into the industry’s toughest negotiation yet, insisting that there is still ‘untapped potential’ under WA’s feet.
Pauline Hanson has made a bold demand to anyone wanting to move to Australia.
Nathan Schmidt
The number of WA kids enrolled in VacSwim has plummeted by 31 per cent in eight years, at a time when drowning deaths are continuing to climb.
Charlton Hart
Almost 20 children are among the more than 100 people arrested during a protest at the world’s largest coal port.
Clareese Packer and Nathan Schmidt
West Aussies’ retirement plans are being derailed, as high rentals, big mortgages and cost-of-living hikes force more over 70s to continue working.
Joe Spagnolo
Roger Cook says he wants powerful new development laws passed before MPs break for summer holidays in a fortnight.
The WA Liberal and National parties have officially started working towards forming a Coalition, with the new arrangement likely to be in place a year out from the 2029 State Election.
WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti has left the door open for a power rebate next year, as West Australians continue to feel the pain of cost-of-living hikes.
The newly-elected opposition leader has taken aim at the state of the hospital system in NSW, arguing the government have left residents to sleep “on the floors of emergency departments”.
Liam Beatty
Doctors at a busy Sydney hospital are pleading for help after two knife-related incidents in just three days.
A CCC investigation has uncovered several dishonest claims made by former Townsville mayor Troy Thompson, including that he never had cancer.
Emma Kirk
Parliamentarians have voted minutes to midnight on a “landmark” Bill to end protections for the Snowy Mountains’ wild brumbies.
Victoria Police will be given new powers to stop and search people in Melbourne’s CBD from this weekend, but not everyone is happy about the move.
One group of Australians will soon have access for the first time to a digital birth certificate on their mobile phone.
Australia could lose its chance to eradicate a potentially deadly superpest if a funding cliff isn’t urgently addressed, an interstate delegation has warned.
Greens WA opened its first-ever office in Albany this week, with the party’s spokesperson for the regions, Jess Beckerling, moving into her new digs on Peels Place.
Melissa Sheil
WA’s $150 billion resources industry is bracing for a new fight over the fine print, and warning that Labor’s new environment deal with the Greens could drive energy prices higher.
