WA Minister for Child Protection and Women's Interests Simone McGurk has offered her take on renewed calls for smacking to be banned in a bid to stop the scourge of domestic violence.
Sarah Steger
Liberal Churchlands MP Sean L’Estrange is the biggest winner in Opposition Leader Liza Harvey’s cabinet reshuffle, now named spokesman for emergency services, defence, and racing and gaming.
Peter Law
Labor’s South West branch has voiced outrage at the party’s plans to bump long-serving MLC Adele Farina from the Upper House ticket at the next election in favour of Alannah MacTiernan.
Joanna Delalande
WA Labor MP Matt Keogh has called for more domestic violence refuges for families as well as individuals.
Annabel Hennessy
The West Australian can reveal the nation’s top political leaders will converge on Port Hedland in July for the first ever Council of Australian Governments meeting in regional West Australia.
Lanai Scarr
The resignation of WA Treasurer Ben Wyatt has offered Opposition Leader Liza Harvey a faint glimmer of hope ahead of the 2021 State election.
Peter LawState Political Editor
Women fleeing domestic violence in remote WA communities are being taken “out of their communities” - with some forced to leave behind children - due to a lack of crisis accommodation.
Fly-in, fly-out workers catching dawn flights will not be able to use Perth’s $1.8 billion underground rail line to get to the airport — because the trains will not start early enough.
Local business leaders have praised retiring State Treasurer Ben Wyatt and commended him for helping to turn around the State’s dire finances while in power.
Stuart McKinnon and Meilin Chew
John McKechnie is seeking reappointment for the Corruption and Crime Commission’s top job, six months after threatening to resign amid a legal battle with State Parliament’s Upper House.
Ben Wyatt announced his shock resignation this morning as the highly respected State treasurer - who some lauded as a future Premier - quit to focus on his family after his wife’s health scare.
‘I love Victoria Park, it’s my home.’ Hannah Beazley, the daughter of WA Governor Kim Beazley, has confirmed she is keen to succeed Ben Wyatt as Labor’s candidate in Victoria Park.
Ben Wyatt stunned the political world on Tuesday when he announced he would quit politics at the March 2021 State election. State Political Editor Peter Law takes a look at who is next in line.
Outgoing WA Treasurer Ben Wyatt will be sorely missed by the ALP, writes Joe Spagnolo. And he may well be the best Labor Premier WA never had.
Joe Spagnolo
WA Treasurer Ben Wyatt made the shock announcement this morning in an impromptu media conference, in a major blow to WA Labor.
Wesley Ballantine should have celebrated his 21st birthday this weekend. But instead, family and friends gathered for a party in his honour after he died on a Perth construction site three years ago.
Rourke Walsh
An adviser to Finance Minister Mathias Cormann is set to replace the retiring former party leader Mike Nahan as the Liberal candidate in Riverton at next year’s State election.
North West Central MP Vince Catania, who defected from Labor a decade ago, has put his hand up to be the next deputy leader of the WA Nationals after Jacqui Boydell’s departure.
Plans for tougher penalties for vegan activists who trespass on WA farms have been “hijacked” by Labor’s left wing, the State’s peak farm lobby group claims.
Perth has beaten Sydney and other major cities around the world to stage the event, which boasts an audience of about 56 million social media fans globally.
Outgoing Legislative Assembly Speaker Peter Watson has defended spending tens of thousands in taxpayer’s money on an overseas junket before his retirement from State Parliament later this year.
Nationals WA will elect a new deputy leader within weeks after Jacqui Boydell announced she will not recontest her seat at next year’s State election.
Sarah Brookes
As the decision to ban Welcome to Country during Remembrance or Anzac Day ceremonies sparks outrage, RSLWA attempts to clarify by saying it only applies to “the actual service itself”.
Peter Law, Peter De Kruijff, Annabel Hennessy and Samantha Rogers
Colin Barnett is among those who have expressed concerns for the ex-treasurer after he was charged with a string of alleged attacks on his partner.
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