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From belts to razors: 20 helpful tips for new prison inmates

Former Comancheros’ State leader Nikola Maksimovic is heading to jail for a generation — here are a few handy hints he’ll need for when he’s on the inside.

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The last thing Mark McGowan will entertain is legalising pot

Mark McGowan says he has never, ever smoked mull and I reckon he was the kind of teenager who called the cops if he saw someone pull out a spliff.

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‘Shanty town’ PremiumBen Harvey’s no-bull guide to Collie’s energy future

If you believe the Government, Collie will be turned into a high-tech wonderland where the jobs of tomorrow are created today - but Ben Harvey’s calling bull.

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Up Late VideoCommentsPremiumUrging east coasters to move to WA during housing crisis?

In tonight’s show, with Mark McGowan urging east coasters to move west at a time when there’s a housing crisis in Perth, Harvey asks one question: where are they going to live? 

| Thu, June 16

Ben Harvey: You didn’t ask me, but...Premium‘The Honoured Society’

The recent revelations about the extent of the ‘Ndrangheta mafia’s activity here reminded me of a story from the 1990s when the cops went after another mafia cartel from Calabria that was operating in WA.

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Ben HarveyPremiumI promised you an update on my dog, Clancy... so here it is

A few months ago I wrote a column about our new puppy and at the end I promised that at some point I would give readers an update about how things were going. The answer is: not great.

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Julie Bishop drops the death stare for lifestyle hacks

If Julie Bishop doing yoga while slathered in Estee Lauder products contained within a metallic face veil isn’t the most bizarre thing you see today, then you are in for an interesting Sunday.

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My 10 commandments for the new prime minister

The 41 days of campaigning was long enough for me to grow a beard that would make Moses look twice, so in biblical audacity I now hand down my 10 commandments to the new Prime Minister, whoever it is.

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What he really meant PremiumMcGowan's State Budget speech decoded with Ben Harvey

The West Australian’s Chief Reporter Ben Harvey cuts through the bulls**it, telling you what Premier Mark McGowan REALLY meant in his State Budget speech. 

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Ben HarveyPremiumBoomers, in their defence, got by with little luxury

Yes, Boomers had it easier financially, but it needs to be acknowledged they made things easier by going without a lot of what have become commonplace in 2022.

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Why this senior Federal copper is not to be trifled with

State coppers have always been contemptuous of the Australian Federal Police — but the bloke just put in charge of the AFP’s western region was so good at locking up crooks they put a $50k bounty on his head.

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‘Not you, it’s me’VideoCommentsPremiumBen Harvey: The Beazley-McGowan bromance has run its course

Kim Beazley’s term as Governor expires in May. The word is he is open to a two-year extension but Mark McGowan has said no. The Government is tight-lipped about what’s happening but four names keep popping up.

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What the Treasurer said vs what he actually meant

Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said A LOT of things when handing down today’s Budget — but here’s what he actually meant.

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Why all the firepower in Perth’s golden triangle?

The good burghers of Perth’s leafy western suburbs are armed more heavily than the folks in the ghetto burbs of the city’s south-east.

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Up Late VideoCommentsPremiumWhy nobody’s been held accountable in Crown royal comission

In tonight’s show, Harvey asks why nobody has been hung out to dry in the Crown royal commission report despite casino bosses overseeing industrial-scale money laundering.

Up Late | Thu, March 24

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Why is the Government giving miners taxpayers’ millions?

This might be a dumb question but if critical minerals really are that critical why do we need the Government to give free money to the companies that are producing them?

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Why the danger isn’t over for riots in WA prisons

It’s pure dumb luck that a prison officer hasn’t been killed in the midst of recent prison riots — and the worst part is the danger is not yet over.

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Ben HarveyCommentsPremiumWhy there’s just no vroom for Clive Palmer’s nazi car

Clive Palmer has COVID and pneumonia. That’s no joke for a healthy young person, let alone an older bloke who spent most of his life the size of a block of flats.

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Ben HarveyVideoPremiumWhy I have (some) sympathy for bikies over insignia laws

Bikies weren’t always like, well, bikies. Society didn’t always despise these guys and politicians didn’t always fall over themselves to write new laws targeting them.

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AdorablePremiumMeet the new man in Ben Harvey’s house

There are now two gingers in Ben Harvey’s house - one drools a lot, and the other is an Irish red setter.

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Keep your coolCommentsPremiumWhat could possibly go wrong on a Harvey summer holiday?

This is my first column in almost two months, courtesy of a self-indulgently long break over Christmas. But my holiday wasn’t all beer and skittles.

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Over-egged?PremiumBen Harvey: You didn’t ask me, but...

A confession: I quite like Brian Burke and Julian Grill. I very occasionally have lunch with them at their favourite haunt.

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Why justice is not served by mistreating our prisoners

‘A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals’, wrote Dostoevsky - and Ben Harvey reckons he might have a point.

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How climbing ladder in Canberra means being half-cut

‘I’m shocked by the extent of the problem at Parliament (one in three people reporting inappropriate or criminal behaviour!) but not by the finding there was a problem.’

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