Roger Cook’s moves to reshape the public sector have continued, with Finance director general Jodi Cant set to leave as part of a departmental reshuffle.
Oliver Lane
A $100 million boost for Perth’s treasured Scitech Discovery Centre has been described as an investment in WA’s future as well as a vital step towards becoming self-sufficient as a nation.
Sarah Steger
Roger Cook has dismissed Opposition Leader Basil Zempilas’ call for WA to bid for the 2030 Commonwealth Games, describing the event as a ‘ruinously expensive sugar-hit.’
Dylan Caporn
Premier Roger Cook said domestic violence offenders should be “put behind bars” in regional areas where electronic monitoring devices cannot be used
Sofia Fimognari and Dylan Caporn
Basil Zempilas has called on the State Government to launch a late bid to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games in the wake of Australia’s incredible athletics boom, which saw all eyes on Perth last week.
Rhianna Mitchell
Returning member for Vasse Libby Mettam delivered her first speech to the 42nd Parliament of Western Australia last week, reflecting on the changes seen after the State election.
Craig Duncan
WA voters have returned an expanded crossbench in the new Upper House.
Opposition leader Basil Zempilas has told a group of more than 100 people the State Government has no mandate to build a speedway in Burswood Park despite their crushing election victory.
Venue owners in the port city are worried that moves to increase residential infill are pushing them out.
Jessica Page
WA’s chief magistrate has been forced to give his assurance that dangerous domestic violence thugs will not be released onto the street if they cannot be electronically monitored.
Roger Cook has sought to distance himself from ongoing talks with the NRL about a WA-based team, saying he is leaving finer details to ‘his team’.
Premier Roger Cook has held his first post-election meeting with NRL bosses about a WA-based team but has tempered expectations of an imminent announcement.
Most politicians will halt their campaigning on Anzac Day to remember Australian diggers, but the WA Greens are instead holding a dance party seeking to raise thousands of dollars for their election bid.
Katina Curtis
The revelations prompted Mr Cook to warn his Victorian counterparts: ‘Hands off, Col’s ours’.
Shannon Hampton and Dylan Caporn
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has revealed the key trait that he “unfortunately” inherited from his father, which he’s spent years trying to “hide”.
Sarah Keoghan
Throughout the course of my 20 years of reporting on WA politics, I’ve often thought I had seen it all. But I have to say, Basil Zempilas’ first day at the office had a bit of originality about it.
Joe Spagnolo
It was only last Saturday that he accused the NRL of treating his State like a ‘cash cow’, with an estimated $65 million gap in funding talks.
Scott Bailey
The National Trust has defended its decision to turn former prime minister Bob Hawke’s West Leederville childhood home into an Airbnb-style property.
Caitlin Vinci
Voters in Peter Dutton’s marginal electorate of Dickson appear just as divided as the latest poll results. This is what they really think.
Andrew Hedgman
Liberal MP Jacinta Price was met by Aboriginal protesters on a visit to Bunbury in WA’s South West where she talked about the failed Voice referendum.
Emma Kirk
Optus Stadium is set to be half empty for two NRL games this weekend, with even the League’s powerful boss unlikely to attend as prolonged talks to bring a League side to WA stall and descend into bitter words.
Spoiler alert: it’s taken a major step backward.
Licia Heath
A “complex” count has been blamed for leaving candidates in limbo, after the WA Electoral Commission revealed the Upper House results are on hold.
Roger Cook has called WA’s Ningaloo Reef the ‘canary in the coal mine’ of global warming and backed billionaire Andrew Forrest’s warning that Western Australia must do things ‘differently’.
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