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Woodside Chairman Michael Chaney (left) and Woodside incoming chairman Richard Goyder.

State PoliticsPremiumBusiness leaders sound alarm over broken WA GST promises

Some of Perth’s most prominent business leaders have put the onus squarely on Anthony Albanese and warned his reputation - and votes - are on the line, if Federal Labor blinks over the GST. 

Jessica Page and Sean Smith

Premier Roger Cook.

State PoliticsPremiumWA in GST fight for life as Cook warns State could lose $6b

Roger Cook and Rita Saffioti have declared they’re ready to rumble over the GST, as business leaders put Anthony Albanese squarely in the frame of a cross-border battle worth $6 billion to WA’s bottom line.

Jessica Page and Caitlyn Rintoul

Angus Taylor is not named in the probe and is not accused of any wrongdoing. NewsWire / Martin Ollman

LIVEPremiumClaim about Angus ICAC ‘shakedown’

A key figure in an anti-corruption inquiry has explained why he planned to “shake down” Angus Taylor for $10,000.

Nathan Schmidt

Joann Wilkie was appointed WA's under-treasurer in June 2025

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Treasury official leaves role but keeps $559k salary

A senior public servant will keep her $559,302 annual salary for five years despite quitting as under-Treasurer, it can be revealed.

Jessica Page

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NewsPremiumState’s sweeping changes in crime crackdown

The sweeping changes come a week after a beloved shopkeeper was allegedly bashed to death by a group of youths accused of shoplifting.

Alexandra Feiam

An inspection of Roebourne Regional Prison in WA’s Pilbara has revealed women are sleeping on the floor as a result of overcrowding that is plaguing the State’s prisons. 

state politicsPremiumPrison improvement ‘fragile’ as inmates sleep on the floor

An inspection of Roebourne Regional Prison in WA’s Pilbara has revealed women are sleeping on the floor as a result of overcrowding that is plaguing the State’s prisons. 

Jessica Page

Small businesses spanning the Secret Harbour electorate say they’re feeling the pinch and feeling forgotten as the by-election looms.

State PoliticsPremiumSecret Harbour local businesses tell all before poll

Small businesses spanning the Secret Harbour electorate say they’re feeling the pinch and feeling forgotten as the by-election looms.

Oliver Lane

Former One Nation candidate Parminder Singh says gay people have a mental illness in an interview posted online.

State PoliticsPremiumWA One Nation candidate says being gay is a ‘mental illness’

WA One Nation candidate Parminder Singh has sparked outrage after describing being gay as ‘a mental illness’ during an appearance on a popular Australian YouTuber’s channel this week.

Caitlin Vinci

Liberal Leader Basil Zempilas and Deputy Liberal Leader Libby Mettam inside Legislative Assembly question time Parliament House and Andrew Ritchie

state politicsVideoPremiumParliament explodes over Saffioti’s Optus coin toss

The Speaker who is meant to keep MP’s in line lost his cool and swore in Parliament, during a fiery debate over Perth’s Italian football festival. 

Jessica Page

Premier Roger Cook rejected calls to visit Memorial Drive in Rockingham.

state politicsVideoPremiumCook rejects rough sleeper invite amid homelessness crisis

Roger Cook has rejected calls to meet with the growing number of homeless camped on Memorial Drive in Rockingham, only 11 kilometres from Secret Harbour where Labor is waging a fierce battle for votes.

Jessica Page

Energy and Decarbonisation Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson and Western Power CEO Gair Landsborough.

State PoliticsPremiumWestern Power rape sparks outrage over character references

Criminals convicted of abhorrent sexual crimes could be banned from using character references to score themselves a reduced sentence as the Cook Government seeks to end the controversial practice.

Charlton Hart

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POLITICSPremiumJacinta Allan breaks silence after resigning

Former Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has spoken out for the first time since her shock decision to exit the role of Victorian Labor Party leader.

Jackson Robb

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Federal PoliticsPremiumHanson vows to protect WA’s GST from east coast ‘bludgers’

Pauline Hanson has backed WA’s share of the GST and called on other States to work harder, reopen their economies and stop relying on handouts from the west.

Caitlyn Rintoul and Jessica Page

Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns have signed a bailout agreement for the Tomago aluminium smelter.

UPDATEDPremium‘National interest’: Reason for $2.5bn bailout

Anthony Albanese says a multibillion-dollar plan to save the country’s biggest aluminium smelter is about more than just jobs.

Nathan Schmidt, Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer, Blair Jackson

Kenan Yildiz, of Juventus, controls the ball against Tommaso Cassandro, of Palermo FC.

State PoliticsPremiumItalian football festival delivers $94m boost to WA

Thousands of fans visited Perth for the Calcio Italiano Football Festival, with WA Tourism authorities saying the three-match showcase was worth more than $94 million to the State.

Caitlin Vinci

No policy no worries is One Nation’s strategy, while for Labor it appears to be a case of go low or go home with your tail between your legs.  Pictured: Georgia Tree, Roger Cook, Pauline Hanson, and Luke Herdegen.

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Policy vacuum in Secret Harbour lets dirty tactics flourish

No policy, no worries is One Nation’s strategy, while for Labor it appears to be a case of go low or go home with your tail between your legs. Whoever wins the Secret Harbour battle will have a pyrrhic victory.

Jessica Page

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Transperth train and bus use is at an all-time high.

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Perth public transport use at record high as fuel skyrockets

Transperth recorded its highest annual travel numbers on record with more than 161 million journeys made across the network in the past year as families continue to grapple with the cost-of-living crisis.

Caitlin Vinci

The renewed promise to build a train station in Karnup, new seating arrangements and both sides’ records on women sparked insults in Parliament on Tuesday. Pictured: Basil Zempilas and Roger Cook.

State PoliticsVideoPremiumInsults fly over by-election as WA Parliament returns

The renewed promise to build a train station in Karnup, new seating arrangements and both sides’ records on women sparked insults in Parliament on Tuesday.

Jessica Page

Health Minister Ryan Park said the government had ‘taken action to slash the overdue surgery waitlist’.

NewsPremiumState’s plan for 2300 more surgeries

An Australian state government wants to ramp up simple surgeries as hospital woes persist and the “worst three weeks of the year” arrive.

Nathan Schmidt

Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King didn’t confirm whether Premier Roger Cook had campaigned for a carve-out from the changes, but said the State Government would have turned its mind to community infrastructure.

EconomyPremiumWA Government, Commonwealth ‘aligned’ on skilled migration

The Albanese and WA Governments are ‘aligned’ on the issue of skilled migration, WA’s most senior minister in the Federal Cabinet says, ahead of looming changes aimed at cutting net inflows.

Rebecca Le May

Labor MPs have refused to explain attack ads targeting Basil Zempilas over health care.

state politicsPremiumZempilas slams ‘spurious’ attack ads as Labor panics

Labor MPs have refused to explain attack ads targeting Basil Zempilas over health care, as old comments resurface to haunt One Nation too - days before voting begins in the crucial Secret Harbour by-election.

Jessica Page

The work-from-home legislation has been panned by businesses across the state. NewsWire / Luis Ascui

UPDATEDPremiumState’s huge move on WFH reforms

Premier Ben Carroll has made a massive call on reforms that would allow Victorian workers to work from home two days a week.

Alexandra Feiam

The Prime Minister’s main man in Perth Patrick Gorman has expressed confidence that regardless of a Productivity Commission’s review’s findings the State’s fair share will be maintained.

WA NewsPremiumChanges to WA’s GST will ‘destroy’ economy, Labor warns

Senior Labor figures in Perth insist any change to WA’s GST will ‘destroy the national economy’ in a dire warning just days before a highly anticipated review into the Morrison-era top up payments. 

Caitlyn Rintoul

Labor candidate for Secret Harbour Georgia Tree’s past comments have resurfaced to haunt the party.

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Questions remain over Labor’s ‘skeletons in our closet’

The treatment of women in politics is in firm focus again with a current Labor candidate’s past comments appearing to expose the party’s hidden problems.