Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie says WA Premier Roger Cook’s complaints to Federal Immigration Minister Tony Burke shows Labor’s visa changes are ‘crook’.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Alarming new figures have revealed why full-time employment no longer guarantees Aussies will have a roof over their head.
Emma Kirk
Sunday will be a historic day when the new Fremantle Traffic Bridge, now known as Walyalup Bridge, officially opens.
Rita Saffioti
Tony Buti could have saved himself ‘significant embarrassment’ if he’d spoken to universities before releasing a Deloitte report on university mergers, Murdoch University chief Andrew Deeks has declared.
Bethany Hiatt
Mayors have accused Local Government Minister Hannah Beazley of ‘devaluing’ the sector, as another council’s infighting descended into an online slanging match.
Jessica Page
Embattled Aboriginal Affairs Minister Don Punch has skipped one-in-five Question Times in Parliament this year and has only answered a single rehearsed question from his own party.
Charlton Hart
Roger Cook has insisted his under-fire Aboriginal Affairs Minister is doing a “very good job”, even as Don Punch again refused to commit to visiting South Hedland in the near-future.
The State and Federal governments have copped a spray for stalling the property market as the ABN Group leader reaches a major milestone
Kim Macdonald
Premier Roger Cook will embark on a trip to Canberra on Wednesday along with a delegation of tourism sector heavyweights to reiterate their demands the Commonwealth rethink its planned backpacker visa shakeup.
Oliver Lane
WA is set to become the first place in Australia to allow plug-in solar panels and batteries as the State Government moves to legalise the technology.
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Don Punch has refused to visit crisis-hit South Hedland in the wake of the town’s child neglect scandal and says it’s up to the community to invite him.
Anthony Albanese has admitted he got it wrong over the true purpose of a $6 million grant to a Sydney golf club where he holds an honorary membership.
Andrew Hedgman
The Pentagon has revealed that the USS Colorado will be the first nuclear powered submarine to be stationed in WA under AUKUS, prompting renewed claims that the deployment will put ‘a target on Perth’.
Andrew Greene
Premier Roger Cook has admitted his concern after City of South Perth CEO abruptly resigned blaming ‘deep-seated’ dysfunction and unsafe conditions but he won’t intervene to fix the problems.
West Australians will not get their $100 fuel relief voucher in time for Christmas if they have not yet made a claim and plan to submit a paper form.
Brooke Rolfe
A WA government agency entrusted with vulnerable people’s livelihoods is rapidly draining its cash reserves to stay afloat and cutting back services while complaints over decisions soar.
The WA Government is almost doubling its renewable energy target for the State’s most important power grid, saying the audacious move is needed to avoid a price surge that would cripple businesses.
Ben Harvey
The boss of Snowy Hydro has admitted “we got it wrong” after a bruising Senate hearing over the spiralling cost of the mammoth project.
The first words Helen Haines spoke after waking have been revealed as MPs pay tribute to the injured politician a week after the attack.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer, Samantha Maiden
The long-serving government of one Aussie state has been given cause for concern just weeks before its state election.
Jack Nivison
The number of Perth trains running on time has slid backwards for a third year straight, with the number of trains running late doubling in six years.
Premier Roger Cook has urged Canberra to rethink controversial backpacker visa changes, warning WA’s tourism and hospitality sectors could be left short of 4500 workers during peak season.
Opposition Leader Basil Zempilas has ripped into Roger Cook’s visit to Port Hedland as the region grapples with a child protection crisis as he addressed the Liberal Party faithful on Sunday.
The Cook Government will finally spend millions on replacing hundreds of corroding pipe hangers on Perth’s most important bridge after years of ignoring warnings of the ‘catastrophic’ risk.
