Judges have been awarded a 3.5 per cent pay rise, worth more than $20,000 for the State’s Chief Justice, but a request for bigger luxury car allowances was rejected.
Jessica Page
A veteran Labor MP has urged her colleagues to consider using their conscience vote to put the party’s surrogacy bill to a committee review amid calls from the opposition for more scrutiny.
Oliver Lane
A whole of community response will be sought to reduce the rate of suicide in Western Australian as the Cook Government released its draft Suicide Prevention Framework.
Ariel Bombara, the daughter of Floreat double murderer Mark Bombara, has backed in the Cook Government’s firearm reforms after a committee found ‘little wrong’ with the laws despite an issue-plagued rollout.
Oliver Lane and Jessica Page
A review triggered by a corruption investigation has called for every State MP to get an extra staffer, opening the door for them to do party political work at taxpayer’s expense.
A historic vote has been held on the future of wild horses in NSW’s romantic Snowy Mountains.
Nathan Schmidt and Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
Very few rentals listed in WA are within reach of the State’s childcare and hospitality workers.
Groundbreaking medical research aimed at improving the lives of WA children has received a major funding boost, with almost $4 million awarded to seven cutting-edge projects across the State.
Caitlin Vinci
Doctors say a severe flu season cannot excuse new evidence revealing the deadly impact of WA’s hospital squeeze, as population growth leaves more ‘life threatening’ patients waiting too long.
Jessica Page, Hannah Cross and Oliver Lane
Ben O’Shea unpacks why WA Premier Roger Cook thinks a deal with the Albanese Government to slash project approval timelines is ‘strengthening environmental protection’.
Ben O'Shea
Julia Gillard has used a university graduation speech to warn against corporations and the “uber-rich” scaling back progressive policies.
Blair Jackson
Synergy first became aware of broad over-payment issues in May, two months before the utility told the Government or public about any problems, according to Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson.
Julie Bishop has urged more West Australians to put their hands up for a career in politics after an internal Liberal review identified candidate selection as a priority in the party’s long road to recovery.
A second person is dead in another case suspected to be linked to deadly synthetic opioids, prompting an urgent warning from health authorities.
Roger Cook says he wants WA to ultimately be the assessor as part of the Federal Government’s proposal to streamline the environmental approval process and cut down approval times.
Oliver Lane and Katina Curtis
Five horses were inadvertently shot during an aerial cull at a remote property.
Nathan Schmidt
John Carey has blamed winter for new statistics showing a backlog for new builds in WA, as the Master Builders Association of WA warns ‘more urgency’ is needed.
Workers on one city’s sprawling rail network will undertake “indefinite” industrial action only months after commuter chaos came to an end.
Former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann is embarking on a legal fight over an anti-corruption raid linked to alleged leaked information about French submarines.
Blake Antrobus
Mark McGowan has warned Donald Trump is damaging America’s ‘standing in the world’, as former Foreign Minister Julie Bishop declared the MAGA impact is here to stay.
For Dion’s sake, and others like him, Labor MPs who spoke up before must speak up again. And the Government has to do more than listen.
Immigration Minister Tony Burke says he made the decision personally to ban controversial American right-wing influencer from entering Australia.
Duncan Evans
The Opposition has welcomed the local government minister’s decision to back down on her threat to suspend the Shire of Coolgardie but says “months of posturing and threats” were unnecessary.
Tegan Guthrie
They are one of the biggest bugbears for some Aussies. Now tough new laws are being introduced to crack down on e-bikes.
Emma Kirk
